# venio
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gʷənjō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from zero-grade of *gʷem- + *-yéti. Cognates include Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati), Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and Old English cuman (English come).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯e.ni.oː/, [ˈu̯ɛnioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈve.ni.o/, [ˈvɛːnio]

### Verb

veniō (present infinitive venīre, perfect active vēnī, supine ventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive
* (intransitive) to come (to a place), come in, arrive, reach
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.387:“Audiam et haec Mānīs veniet mihi fāma sub īmōs.”“I will be listening, and this report will come to me below, in the depths of the Underworld.”
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.91–92:‘exul ab Arcadiā Latiōs Evander in agrōs vēnerat, impositōs attuleratque deōs.’‘‘An exile from Arcadia to Latium, Evander had come into the fields, and had brought forth [his] gods, having placed them upon [his ship(s)].’’ (The muse Calliope is describing the early Roman ancestor Evander of Pallantium.)
* (intransitive) to approach

#### Derived terms

* adinveniō
* adveniō
* anteveniō
* circumveniō
* contrāveniō
* conveniō
* dēveniō
* disconveniō
* ēveniō
* interveniō
* inveniō
* obveniō
* perveniō
* praeveniō
* prōveniō
* reveniō
* subveniō
* superveniō
* trānsveniō
* venīlia
* ventiō
* ventitō
* ventō

#### Related terms

* adventus
* eventus
* interventus
* inventus
* praeventus
* subventus

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: bènnere, benni, bènniri, vènnere
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: vin, yin, vinjiri
** Istro-Romanian: vir
** Megleno-Romanian: vin, viniri
** Romanian: veni
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: vena
** Dalmatian: venur
** Istriot: vignì
** Italian: venire
** Neapolitan: venire
** Sicilian: vèniri
** Venetan: vegner, vegnar, vegnir
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: vignî
** Ladin: vegnì, gnì
** Romansch: vegnir, vagnir, neir, gnir
* Gallo-Italic:
** Ligurian: vegnî
** Old Lombard: uenir
*** Lombard: vegní, vègner
** Piedmontese: vene, ven-e, vnì
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: venir
** Franco-Provençal: venir
** Occitan: venir
** Old French: venir
*** Bourguignon: veindre, veni, veinre
*** Middle French: venir
**** French: venir
***** Haitian Creole: vin, vini
***** ⇒ English: venue
*** Norman: v'nîn, vénîn (Jersey), v'nir (Guernsey), v'nir, v'nîn (Jersey)
*** Walloon: vni
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: venir
** Mozarabic: ברנאד (brnʔd), בניד (bnyd), באן (bʔn)
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: venir
*** Extremaduran: venil
*** Leonese: venire
*** Mirandese: benir
** Old Galician-Portuguese: vĩir, viir
*** Fala: vil
*** Galician: vir
*** Portuguese: vir
** Old Spanish: venir
*** Spanish: venir
* Borrowings:
** → Old Albanian: vinj, venj (present tense forms)
*** Albanian: vij, vinj — Gheg
** ⇒ English: venire

### References

* “venio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “venio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* venio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. something comes into my mind: mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei to pass from myth to history: ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit to make a thing a matter of conscience, be scrupulous about a thing: aliquid in religionem alicui venit I have received a legacy from a person: hereditas ad me or mihi venit ab aliquo (Verr. 2. 1. 10) an interregnum ensues: res ad interregnum venit or adducitur matters have reached the fighting-stage: res ad arma venit the fighting is now at close quarters: res ad manus venit (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 pardon some one: alicui veniam dare (alicuius rei) (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 strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere (ambiguous) to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse (ambiguous) to pardon a person: veniam dare alicui (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) (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt

### Further reading

* “venio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. something comes into my mind: mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei to pass from myth to history: ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit to make a thing a matter of conscience, be scrupulous about a thing: aliquid in religionem alicui venit I have received a legacy from a person: hereditas ad me or mihi venit ab aliquo (Verr. 2. 1. 10) an interregnum ensues: res ad interregnum venit or adducitur matters have reached the fighting-stage: res ad arma venit the fighting is now at close quarters: res ad manus venit (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 pardon some one: alicui veniam dare (alicuius rei) (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 strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere (ambiguous) to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse (ambiguous) to pardon a person: veniam dare alicui (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) (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt