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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=1st century BC, Cicero and Varro|origins=ine-pro *(H)uēnh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [weːˈnaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [veˈnat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēnātiō''' ''f'' (genitive vēnātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vēnor|-tiō|t1=to hunt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan takes [[m|la|vēnor]] as probably a verb made from an adjective ⟨*wēno-⟩ “searching, hunting” or a noun [[itc-pro|*wēnā-|t=hunting]], going back to [[ine-pro|*(H)uēnh₁-|t=desire]];^(de Vaan 2008) he compares [[sa|वनते|tr=vánate|t=to love, desire]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It appears in Cicero and Varro.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Cicero's ''Cato Maior'' says that fowling and hunting make a farm's table richer, and Varro describes herds of dormice, boars and other game.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Besides the hunting of wild animals, it is the game itself, the animals caught.^(OLD 2012) In Rome it was also a beast hunt staged as a show in the circus or arena: Varro speaks of such hunts held by the aediles, and Seneca of sending someone gladiators or a ''venatio'' after the show is over.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar says the Suebi spend much time in hunting.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin keeps hunting and game, and also venison.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval documents it is the right to hunt, the due paid for that right, and also a fishery.^(Niermeyer 1976) Through Old French it gave English [[m|en|venison]], first recorded about 1300.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of hunting as a pleasure of country life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of game and of beast hunts in the circus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of the Suebi's hunting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of the animals of an arena hunt.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – The right to hunt; a due for it; a fishery.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * c. 1300 – English [[m|en|venison]], through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|hunting|alt=Hunting]], the [[m|en|chase]]; a hunt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Animals hunted, [[m|en|game]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A wild-beast hunt staged as a show in the circus or [[m|en|arena]]; the animals of such a show.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|venison]].^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The right to hunt; a due paid for it; a [[m|en|fishery]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vēnor]]

+ * [[vēnātor]]

+ * [[vēnātus]]

+ * [[vēnābulum]]

+ * [[vēnāticus]]

+ * [[en|venison]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}