Venetia

English

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Proper noun

Venetia

1. A female given name from Latin of debated meaning used since the late Middle Ages.

Anagrams

• naivete, naiveté, naïvete, naïveté

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Latin

Etymology

From the Pre-Roman substrate population of the Venetī, name of an ancient people, of possibly Illyrian origin. More at Venice.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eˈne.ti.a/, [u̯ɛˈnɛt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈnet.t͡si.a/, [veˈnɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Venetia f sg (genitive Venetiae); first declension

1. the country of the Veneti
2. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Venice

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Venetia
Genitive	Venetiae
Dative	Venetiae
Accusative	Venetiam
Ablative	Venetiā
Vocative	Venetia
Locative	Venetiae

Related terms

• Venetī
• venetus

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: Venêzia
  • Ligurian: Venessia
  • Lombard: Venèzia
  • Piedmontese: Venessia
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: Venezia
  • Italian: Venezia
  • Neapolitan: Venezia
  • Sicilian: Vinezzia
• Old French: Venise
  • Middle French: Venisse
    • French: Venise
      • → Vietnamese: Vơ-ni-dơ
  • Norman: V'nise, Venise
  • Picard: Venise
  • → Middle English: Venyse, Venys, Venyce, Venice, Venise, Venecia
    • English: Venice (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: Venis, Venise, Veneis, Venice
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: Venècia
  • Occitan: Venècia
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: Vignesie
  • Ladin: Unieja
  • Romansch: Vaniescha, Venezia
• Sardinian: Venetzia
• Venetian: Venesia, Venèsia, Venexia, Venèxia, Venèzsia, Venezsia
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: Venecia
    • Portuguese: Veneza
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: Venecia
• → Greek: Βενετία (Venetía)
• → Irish: Veinéis
• → Romanian: Veneția
• → Russian: Венеция (Venecija) (see there for further descendants)
• → Slovene: Benetke
  • → Czech: Benátky
  • → Slovak: Benátky