Latin

Verb

vēneō ‎(present infinitive vēnīre, perfect active vēniī, supine vēnitum); irregular conjugation

1. I am sold (as a slave)

Usage notes

This verb is used as the passive of vendo.

Inflection

The third principal part is most often contracted to vēniī, but occasionally appears as vēnīvī

References

• veneo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• veneo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “veneo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
    
  • (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 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 appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
    
  • (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)