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venatio

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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venatio (countable and uncountable, plural venationes)

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

Latin

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Etymology

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From vēnor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vēnātiō f (genitive vēnātiōnis); third declension

  1. hunting, the chase, venery
  2. hunt

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

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

Descendants

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References

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  • 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