Venice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛnɪs/
rhymes: -ɛnɪs
Forms: form: Venices
Etymology: From Middle English Venyse, from Old French Venise or Old Italian, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Venetī + -ia (suffix forming place names), a local tribe in antiquity whose own little-attested language is now known as Venetic. Initial scholarly agreement that they were Illyrian was based on arguments since refuted. They worshipped Belenus and were possibly Celtic or heavily influenced by Celtic culture, despite repeatedly supporting the Romans against the Gauls. Compare the identical ethnonym Venetī used for Celts of Armorica (ancient Britanny) from Gaulish Uenetoi (“friendly ones, kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a modified form of *wenyā (“kindred”). Widely but mistakenly derived by the ancient Greeks and Romans from the Eneti of Pamphylia, supposed to have fled to the Adriatic and become the Veneti after supporting the losing side of the Trojan War. As American places, named after the Italian city. Doublet of Venetia and Venezia.
Senses: examples: text: An. The Duke cannot deny the courſe of law: / for the commoditie that ſtrangers haue / With vs in Venice, if it be denied, / Will much impeach the iuſtice of the State, / Since that the trade and profit of the citty / Conſiſteth of all Nations.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 176:
text: As I indicated at the outset, for us Shakespeare's Venetian plays lie between the early modern republic described in Chapter 2, and all the subsequent Venices of our experience, education and imagination, […]
ref: 2010, Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and Venice, →ISBN, page 141:
related: word: Venezia
synonyms: Serenissima
lagoon city
glosses: A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Venice and the region of Veneto, Italy; former capital of an independent republic.
related: word: Venezia
glosses: A metropolitan city of Veneto, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Venice.
related: word: Venezia
glosses: A former province of Veneto.
synonyms: Republic of Venice
Most Serene Republic of Venice
Serenissima
glosses: A former polity in Europe, a republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean from CE 697 to 1797 with its capital at Venice.
glosses: A township in Illinois, United States.
glosses: A township in Michigan, United States.
glosses: A township in Ohio, United States.
examples: text: While Santa Monica has a longstanding prohibition against public camping that includes living in vehicles, the van rental business has been a problem in Venice for years.
ref: 2023 May 19, Matthew Hall, “Los Angeles Councilwoman targets “vanlord” industry”, in Santa Monica Daily Press:
glosses: A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
Hyponyms: sense: Italian city
word: Cannaregio
sense: Italian city
word: Castello
sense: Italian city
word: Dorsoduro
sense: Italian city
word: San Marco
sense: Italian city
word: San Polo
sense: Italian city
word: Santa Croce
Derived terms: Gulf of Venice
Little Venice
Most Serene Republic of Venice
Republic of Venice
Venice Beach
Venice blue
Venice of the North
Venice soap
Venice talc
Venice treacle
Venice turpentine
Related terms: Veneti
Venetian
Venetic
Veneto