veneo Latin · revision 30734

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ues-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈweː.ne.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɛː.ne.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēneō''' (present infinitive vēnīre, perfect active vēniī or vēnīvī, supine vēnitum); irregular conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is conjugated like ''eō'', with the future ''vēnībō''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ Plautus also has passive forms such as ''vēnīrī'' and ''vēnear''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ It is also spelled ''vaeneō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It continues ⟨*vēnum īre⟩, “to go for sale”, from the accusative of [[m|la|vēnus|t=sale]] and [[m|la|eō|t=to go]]; [[vēndō]] “to sell” is likewise ⟨*vēnum dare⟩ “to give for sale”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces the noun to [[itc-pro|*wesno-]] and [[ine-pro|*ues-no-|t=price]], cognate with [[sa|वस्न|tr=vasná-|t=price, value]], [[grc|ὦνος|tr=ônos|t=price]] and [[hit|ušnii̯e/a-|t=to put up for sale]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Pseudolus'', reports that a woman has been sold to a Macedonian soldier (''eam vēniisse mīlitī Macedoniō'').^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Vēneō'' serves as the passive of ''vēndō'', “to be sold”, of goods and of people sold as slaves (Plautus, Cato, Cicero).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Of services and favours it means to be disposed of for money, usually dishonestly, and of venal persons to be bought: Sallust's Jugurtha had come to believe that at Rome everything was for sale (''omnia vēnīre'').^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “go on sale, be sold”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a woman sold to a soldier.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of people sold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust: ''omnia vēnīre''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|sell|alt=sold]], go on sale; to be sold as a slave.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(of favours, persons)'' To be bought, be [[m|en|venal]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vēndō]]

+ * [[vēnālis]]

+ * [[eō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}