venum

Latin

Alternative forms

• vaenum
• vēnus

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to sell, buy”); see also Ancient Greek ὦνος (ônos), ὠνέομαι (ōnéomai, “to buy”), Sanskrit वस्नयति (vasnayati, “to haggle”), वस्न (vasna, “price”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.num/, [ˈweː.nũ]

Noun

vēnum m (accusative)

1. something for sale, something to sell

Inflection

Fourth or second declension. Attested only in the dative and accusative singular forms.

Case	Singular
nominative	—
genitive	—
dative	vēnuī vēnō
accusative	vēnum
ablative	—
vocative	—

Derived terms

• vēnālis
• vēndō
• vēneō

References

• venus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• venum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “venum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill