venatus Latin · revision 34015

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la vēnor}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēnātus''' ''m'' (genitive vēnātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vēnor|-tus|t1=to hunt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb probably comes from an adjective [[itc-pro|*wēno-|t=searching, hunting]] or a noun [[m|itc-pro|*wēnā-|t=hunt]], made from [[ine-pro|*(H)uēnh₁-|t=desire]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the hunting of game, or a single hunt:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of toil in hunting, and Virgil and Ovid use it too, Ovid also in the plural.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus uses it of fishing, of a catch taken from the sea.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of the game itself, of peoples who live on game and fowling, and of an eagle bringing game to the girl who had raised it.^(OLD 2012) Medieval Latin uses it of the right to hunt.^(Niermeyer 1976) Köbler finds it in a charter of 979.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of fishing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the toil of hunting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of game.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 979 – In a charter.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

+ # Fishing; a catch.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Animals caught in hunting, [[m|en|game]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The right to hunt.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vēnor]]

+ * [[vēnātor]]

+ * [[vēnātiō]]

+ * [[vēnābulum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}