venor

== Ido == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /veˈnɔr/ === Verb === venor future infinitive of venar == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”), or from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”) (disputedly). See also Latin Venus, veneror, venia, and venēnum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.nɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.nor] === Verb === vēnor (present infinitive vēnārī or vēnārier, perfect active vēnātus sum); first conjugation, deponent to chase, hunt, pursue game/quarry Synonym: aucupor (figuratively, mostly poetically) to strive for, or pursue any objective, whether concrete or abstract in nature ==== Conjugation ==== 1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested. ==== Derived terms ==== ===== Proverbs ===== stultitia est vēnātum dūcere invītōs canēs (“labouring in vain”, literally “folly is leading unwilling hunting dogs”) piscārī in āere, vēnārī autem rēte iaculō in mediō marī (“labouring in vain”, literally “to fish in the air, moreover to hunt with a net thrown in the middle of the sea”) ==== Descendants ==== === References === “venor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “venor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "venor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “venor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.