veneración

Forms

veneración f (plural veneraciones)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin venerātiō (“reverence, worship”).^[2][1][3] Corominas and DICCA-XV list it as a derivative of venerar, though it is recorded earlier than the verb.^[4][5] The Latin noun is formed from veneror (“to revere”).^[3][6]

The same Latin word gave Catalan veneració, Portuguese veneração, French vénération and Italian venerazione.^[7][8][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in an Aragonese work drawn from the chronicles of Isidore and Lucas of Tuy (1385–1396), on the Virgin Mary, la memoria de la qual es haujda allj en ueneracion “whose memory is held there in veneration”.^[9]

Semantic evolution

Corominas finds it in Santillana and Alfonso de la Torre, and the Breve diccionario dates it about 1440; with venerable it is older and commoner than the verb.^[4][10] Enrique de Villena already uses it in 1427–1428 for the honour paid to an image in a temple.^[9] Autoridades records that, of God, the saints and sacred things, it means the same as culto “worship”.^[11] In the Americas it is recorded from 1572, of the veneration owed to images.^[12]

Timeline

• 1385–1396 – first record, ueneracion, in a work drawn from the chronicles of Isidore and Lucas of Tuy.^[9]
• before 1417 – the Libro de las consolaciones de la vida humana has veneración.^[9]
• 1427–1428 – Villena's glosses on the Eneida (in a copy of 1442).^[9]
• c. 1440 – the date of the Breve diccionario.^[10]
• 1492 – Nebrija glosses Latin ueneratio as aquella onra.^[5]
• 1572 – first record in the Americas, in Mexico City.^[12]
• 1739 – Autoridades enters the religious sense “worship”.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act or effect of venerar, “to venerate”: deep respect and devotion for a person or thing: Siente veneración por su abuela.^[2][1][13]
2. Worship (culto) paid to God, the saints or sacred things.^[14][11]

Related words

• venerar
• venerable
• Latin venerātiō

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. veneración
3. ^ a b c Segura Munguía, Santiago (2001), Nuevo diccionario etimológico latín-español y de las voces derivadas, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, p. 827
4. ^ a b Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 5, 769
5. ^ a b Lleal, Coloma (dir.), DICCA-XV: Diccionario del castellano del siglo XV en la Corona de Aragón, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Grup d'Estudis d'Història de la Llengua (GHCL), https://ghcl.ub.edu/diccaxv, p. s.v. veneración
6. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
7. ^ Alcover, Antoni M.; Moll, Francesc de B. (1930–1962), Diccionari català-valencià-balear, 10 vols., Palma de Mallorca: Moll, p. s.v. veneració
8. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. veneração
9. ^ a b c d e Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. veneración
10. ^ a b Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. venerar
11. ^ a b c Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 6, 444
12. ^ a b Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. veneración
13. ^ Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. veneración
14. ^ Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial, p. s.v. veneración