venumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈweː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvɛː.num]

名詞

vēnum m (accusative)

1. Forms two-place compound verbal expressions, imparting the meaning "for sale"

   pecus vēnum agere ― to drive cattle for sale

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.19.4:

     Eum rogāvit ūnus ē nostrīs, habēretne vēnuī lactem

     One of us asked him if he had milk for sale

使用する際の注意点

When followed by dō, frequently spelled as one word vēnumdō, vēnundō, which historically was further syncopated into vēndō. This is an example of incorporation.

語形変化

Fourth/second-declension noun (defective), singular only.

派生語

参照

Further reading

• “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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.