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venatio

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin venatio. Doublet of venison and venation.

Noun

venatio (countable and uncountable, plural venationes)

The hunting and slaying of wild animals as a form of entertainment in Ancient Roman amphitheaters.

Latin

Etymology

From vēnor.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈnaː.ti.oː/, [u̯eːˈnäːt̪ioː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈnat.t͡si.o/, [veˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

vēnātiō f (genitive vēnātiōnis); third declension

hunting, the chase, venery
hunt

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vēnātiō	vēnātiōnēs
genitive	vēnātiōnis	vēnātiōnum
dative	vēnātiōnī	vēnātiōnibus
accusative	vēnātiōnem	vēnātiōnēs
ablative	vēnātiōne	vēnātiōnibus
vocative	vēnātiō	vēnātiōnēs

Descendants

→ Catalan: venació
→ English: venation
Italian: venagione
Old French: venison
- French: venaison (“venison”)
- → Middle English: venisoun
  - English: venison
Portuguese: veação
→ Spanish: venación

References

“venatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“venatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
venatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
venatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“venatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin