venator Latin · revision 34079

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(H)uēnh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

+ * Ecclesiastical: [veˈnaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēnātor''' ''m'' (genitive vēnātōris, feminine vēnātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vēnor|-tor|t1=to hunt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan takes that verb as a denominative from a noun or adjective going back to [[itc-pro|*wēn-o/ā-|t=hunting]], from a root [[ine-pro|*(H)uēnh₁-|t=desire]], and compares [[sa|वनते|tr=vánate|t=to love, desire]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) where a man is told that, like a hunter, he spends days and nights with his dog.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is one who pursues wild animals, a hunter: Cicero, Caesar and Horace use it, and inscriptions record a guild of hunters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal uses it of one who hunts beasts in the arena, spearing Numidian bears at Alba.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it hunter and fighter with wild animals in the arena.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is the master of the hunt, a dignitary of the royal court.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, like a hunter with his dog.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal of a hunter in the arena.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|hunter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # One who hunts beasts in the [[m|en|arena]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The master of the hunt, a court dignitary.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[venor|alt=vēnor]]

+ * [[venatio|alt=vēnātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}