venetus

Latin

Etymology

From Venetī +‎ -us or directly from the unknown original endonym.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯e.ne.tus/, [ˈu̯ɛnɛt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ne.tus/, [ˈvɛːnet̪us]

Adjective

venetus (feminine veneta, neuter venetum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (historical) Venetian, of or related to the Veneti
2. (Medieval Latin) Venetian, of or related to Venice
3. blue, blue-green, sea-blue

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	venetus	veneta	venetum		venetī	venetae	veneta
genitive	venetī	venetae	venetī		venetōrum	venetārum	venetōrum
dative	venetō	venetae	venetō		venetīs
accusative	venetum	venetam	venetum		venetōs	venetās	veneta
ablative	venetō	venetā	venetō		venetīs
vocative	venete	veneta	venetum		venetī	venetae	veneta

Related terms

• veneticus

Descendants

• Aromanian: vinit
• Italian: veneto
  • → Catalan: vènet
  • → French: vénète
    • → Romanian: venet
• Piedmontese: vénet
• → Portuguese: vêneto
• Romanian: vânăt
  • → Romani: vuneto
• → Spanish: véneto
• Venetan: vèneto

See also

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)

albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)	glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.)	niger, āter, piceus, furvus
ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius	rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)	flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
galbus, galbinus, lūridus	viridis	prasinus
cȳaneus	caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.)	glaucus; līvidus; venetus
violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)	ostrīnus, amethystīnus	purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus

Noun

venetus m (genitive venetī); second declension

1. (historical, sports) the Blues, the racing faction of the Roman and Constantinopolitan circus clothed in blue

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	venetus	venetī
genitive	venetī	venetōrum
dative	venetō	venetīs
accusative	venetum	venetōs
ablative	venetō	venetīs
vocative	venete	venetī

Synonyms

• factio veneta

Coordinate terms

• prasinus, factio prasina (Greens); russatus, factio russata (Reds); albus, albatus, factio alba, factio albata (Whites); auratus, factio aurata (Golds, rare); purpureus, factio purpurea (Purples, rare)

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: Βένετοι (Bénetoi)

References

• “venetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "venetus", 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)