noun · masculine
vēnum
vēnum m (accusative)
Classical[ˈweː.nũː]Ecclesiastical[ˈvɛː.num]
Meaning
- accusativeForms two-place compound verbal expressions, imparting the meaning "for sale"
pecus vēnum agere
to drive cattle for saleEum rogāvit ūnus ē nostrīs, habēretne vēnuī lactem
One of us asked him if he had milk for salec. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.19.4
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| dative | vēnuī vēnō | — |
| accusative | vēnum | — |
vēnum, i, v. 2. venus.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
vēnum or vaenum n
that which is sold, that which is for sale, sale.—Usu. acc., in phrases with do or eo, vēnum dō, dedī, datus, āre (later as one word, vēnumdō, vēnundō, vaen-), to sell as a slave, sell: multitudo alia civium Campanorum venum data, L.: Numidae puberes interfecti, alii omnes vaenumdati, S.: per commercia venumdati, Ta.: se venum a principibus datos Poeno, L.: venum eo, to be sold, be exposed for sale: ut eius familia ad aedem Cereris venum iret, L.—Dat predic.: stuprum vaeno dedisse, Ta.: posita vaeno inritamenta luxui, Ta.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*wes-
- Proto-Indo-European*wósn̥
- Proto-Indo-European*wésnos
- Proto-Italic*wesnos
- Latinvēnum
From Proto-Italic *wesnos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to sell, buy”), whence also e.g. vīlis, thematicized from a consonant-stem noun such as *wósn̥. Cognate to Ancient Greek ὦνος (ônos, “price”), ὠνέομαι (ōnéomai, “to buy”), Sanskrit वस्न (vasna, “price”), वस्नयति (vasnayati, “to haggle”).