ventito

Forms

ventitō (present infinitive ventitāre, perfect active ventitāvī, supine ventitātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin veniō (“to come”) + -itō, a frequentative.^[2][3][1] De Vaan traces veniō to Proto-Italic *gʷn-je/o- (“to come”) and Proto-Indo-European *gʷm-ie/o- (“to come”), comparing Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis & Short quote it from Caesar, who says that merchants often come to the Ubii, and Cicero.^[3]

Semantic evolution

It is to come often or habitually, to keep coming, to resort: Cicero recalls going regularly to Scaevola, and Caesar has people coming often into the camp.^[3][2] Lewis & Short call it classical.^[3] Church Latin glosses it to come often.^[5]

Timeline

• c. 50 BC – Caesar of merchants coming to the Ubii.^[3][6]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero of visits to Scaevola.^[3][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To come often or habitually, keep coming, resort (to a place or person).^[2][3][1][5]

Related words

• veniō

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
6. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de