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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈwɛn.tɪ.toː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɛn.ti.to][1]

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]

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