veneo

From vēnum +‎ eō, literally “go on sale”. Compare vēndō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈweː.ne.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.ne.o]

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

1. to be sold

   Synonyms: vēndor, vēnundor, vēnumdor

   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, apud Diomedem Grammaticum, Artis Grammaticae libri III 368.25–26:

     ego illi venear

     I may be sold there

   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 577–578:

     nam heri in portum noctu navis venit. veniri hanc volo, / si potest; si non potest, iri hinc volo quantum potest.

     • 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley^[1]

       For yesterday at night the ship arrived in harbour: I want her to be sold, if she can; if she cannot, I intend to go away from here as soon as I can.

   • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 95.42:^[2]

     Mullum ingentis formae — quare autem non pondus adicio et aliquorum gulam inrito? quattuor pondo et selibram fuisse aiebant — Tiberius Caesar missum sibi cum in macellum deferri et veniri iussisset: “amici,” inquit, “omnia me fallunt, nisi istum mullum aut Apicius emerit aut P. Octavius.”

     • 1925 translation by Richard Mott Gummere^[3]

       A mullet of monstrous size was presented to the Emperor Tiberius. They say it weighed four and one half pounds (and why should I not tickle the palates of certain epicures by mentioning its weight?). Tiberius ordered it to be sent to the fish-market and put up for sale, remarking: “I shall be taken entirely by surprise, my friends, if either Apicius or P. Octavius does not buy that mullet.”

This verb is used as the passive of vendo.

Irregular, but similar to the fourth conjugation. The third principal part vēniī occasionally appears as vēnīvī.

• “veneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “veneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “veneo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to come to Rome: Romam venire, pervenire
    
  • (ambiguous) to go to meet some one: obviam venire alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to come into some one's hands: in alicuius manus venire, pervenire
    
  • (ambiguous) to come in sight: venire in conspectum alicuius
    
  • (ambiguous) to come to assist any one: auxilio alicui venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain a person's esteem, friendship: in gratiam alicuius venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer reproof; to be criticised, blamed: in vituperationem, reprehensionem cadere, incidere, venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a subject for gossip: in sermonem hominum venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become famous, distinguish oneself: gloriam colligere, in summam gloriam venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become doubtful: in dubium venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a person forget a thing: aliquem in oblivionem alicuius rei adducere (pass. in oblivionem venire)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be contested, become the subject of debate: in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
    
  • (ambiguous) to come before the tribunal of the critics: in existimantium arbitrium venire (Brut. 24. 92)
    
  • (ambiguous) to pass into a proverb: in proverbii consuetudinem or simply in proverbium venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become frightened: in timorem venire, pervenire
    
  • (ambiguous) to conceive a hope: in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
    
  • (ambiguous) to be suspected by some one: in suspicionem alicui venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to come into the possession of something: in possessionem alicuius rei venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to obtain an audience of some one: in congressum alicuius venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
    
  • (ambiguous) to come within javelin-range: ad teli coniectum venire (Liv. 2. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
    
  • (ambiguous) to make one's submission to some one: in deditionem venire (without alicui)