veação

Forms

veação f (plural veações)^[1] The 15th-century spellings are ueaçam and veaçom, with the plural veaçõoes.^[2][3] Bluteau writes veaçaõ.^[4]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin vēnātiō (“hunting; game”), recorded from the 15th century.^[2][3][5][6] Like veado, from vēnātus (“hunt; game”), it has lost the Latin -n- between vowels, and Cunha treats it under that word.^[3][7] Vieira (1871–1874) derived it instead from French venaison.^[8] The same Latin word gave the French word, first Old French veneison about 1138, and Old Occitan venaizo; Old Italian venagione was borrowed from French.^[6][9]

In Latin the noun is formed from vēnor (“to hunt”) with the suffix -tiō.^[10][11] De Vaan connects the verb with a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "desire", the root of Sanskrit वनते (vánate, “loves, desires”).^[12] Wiktionary gives that root, Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”), as disputed beside *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”).^[11]

Earliest recorded meaning

Houaiss's first records are of the 15th century, in the slips of Cunha's index of medieval Portuguese.^[2] Bluteau (1712–1728) defines veaçaõ as the game of the big hunt, such as deer and roe deer, and quotes Tem este monte grande numero de Veaçaõ, como cabras "this hill has a great number of game, such as goats" and Os matos cheyos de toda a veaçaõ "the woods full of every kind of game"; he adds that it sometimes means the meat of the animals killed.^[4]

Semantic evolution

In Latin the noun meant hunting, and also the hunting spectacles of the Roman circus.^[13][14] Medieval Latin used it for the right to hunt.^[15] In Portuguese it names the big-game hunt (montaria), the animals killed in it, and the dish made of their meat;^[8] Caldas Aulete quotes Herculano's O Monge de Cister for veações frias "cold game dishes".^[2][1] Cunha and the DLP also give the place where big game is hunted.^[3][16]

Timeline

• 15th century – first records, spelt ueaçam and veaçom.^[2]
• 1712–1728 – Bluteau: the game of the big hunt, and its meat.^[4]
• 1871–1874 – Vieira derives it from French.^[8]
• 1912 – Silva Bastos: the hunting of wild animals, and a dish of their meat.^[17]

Meanings

Noun

1. The hunting of wild animals; a big-game hunt, montaria.^[2][18][19]
2. The animals killed in such a hunt; game.^[2][18]
3. (cooking) A dish made with the meat of game; venison.^[2][18][20]
4. A place where big game is hunted.^[3][16]

Related words

• veado
• venatório
• Latin vēnātiō
• French venaison

Usage notes

Dictionaries warn against confusing it with viação "road transport".^[18][19][1] Michaelis gives venação as a variant, but Houaiss's venação is a different word, a term of botany and zoology for the pattern of veins.^[21][22]

References

1. ^ a b c Aulete, Francisco Júlio Caldas, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa (1st ed. 1881), online as Aulete Digital, Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, https://aulete.com.br, p. s.v. veação
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. veação
3. ^ a b c d e Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. veação
4. ^ a b c Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. veaçaõ
5. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. veação
6. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 9182
7. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. veado
8. ^ a b c Vieira, Frei Domingos (1871–1874), Grande Diccionario Portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza, 5 vols., Porto: Ernesto Chardron e Bartholomeu H. de Moraes, p. 5, 888
9. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert, p. s.v. venaison
10. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. uēnātiō
11. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
12. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
13. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. s.v. vēnātiō
14. ^ Wikcionário (Portuguese Wiktionary), pt.wiktionary.org
15. ^ Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill, p. s.v. venatio
16. ^ a b Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. veação
17. ^ Silva Bastos, José Timóteo da (1912), Diccionario etymologico, prosodico e orthographico da lingua portugueza, Lisboa: Parceria António Maria Pereira, p. s.v. veação
18. ^ a b c d Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. veação
19. ^ a b Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Priberam Informática, https://dicionario.priberam.org, p. s.v. veação
20. ^ Porto Editora (2013), Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, Porto: Porto Editora, p. 9407
21. ^ Michaelis: Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo: Melhoramentos (online as Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa, https://michaelis.uol.com.br), p. s.v. veação
22. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. venação