obvenio

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [ɔbˈwɛ.ni.oː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [obˈvɛː.ni.o]^[1]

Forms

obveniō (present infinitive obvenīre, perfect active obvēnī, supine obventum); fourth conjugation, third person-only in the passive^[1]

Etymology

It is from ob- “towards” and veniō “to come”.^[2][1] De Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥-yé- (“to come”).^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of falling to someone's lot and of happening.^[2] Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^[4]

Semantic evolution

It meant to fall to someone's lot, be assigned, as a province to a magistrate, and to happen, occur, present itself, as in Plautus.^[2][5] In Livy it meant to come face to face, meet.^[2][6]

It survives in French obvenir and Catalan obvenir.^[1]

Timeline

• c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^[2][4]
• 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of meeting.^[2][4]

Meanings

Verb

1. To come to meet.^[2]
2. To fall to one's lot.^[2]
3. To happen, occur.^[2]

Word family

• obvenientia
• obventīcius
• obventiō
• obventus

Related words

• adveniō
• anteveniō
• circumveniō
• contrāveniō
• conveniō
• dēveniō
• ēveniō
• interveniō
• inveniō
• perveniō
• veniō
• obviam
• obvius
• English obvious

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
4. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.