venio

From Proto-Italic *gʷənjō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from zero-grade of *gʷem- + *-yéti. Cognates include Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati), Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and Old English cuman (English come).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛ.ni.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.ni.o]

veniō (present infinitive venīre, perfect active vēnī, supine ventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. (intransitive) to come (to a place), come in, arrive, reach
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 712–713:

     CHARĪNUS: Hūc face ad mē ut veniās, sī quid poteris. / DĀVUS: Quid veniam? Nihil habeō. CHARĪNUS: At tamen, sīquid…. DĀVUS: Age, veniam.

     CHARINUS: Make sure that you come to me here, if there is anything you can do. DAVUS: Why should I come? I have nothing [for you]. CHARINUS: But still, if [there’s] anything… DAVUS: Alright, I’ll come.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.387:

     “Audiam et haec Mānīs veniet mihi fāma sub īmōs.”

     “I will be listening, and this report will come to me below, in the depths of the Underworld.”

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.91–92:

     ‘exul ab Arcadiā Latiōs Evander in agrōs
     vēnerat, impositōs attuleratque deōs.’

     ‘‘An exile from Arcadia to Latium, Evander had come into the fields, and had brought forth [his] gods, having placed them upon [his ship(s)].’’
     (The muse Calliope is describing the early Roman ancestor Evander of Pallantium.)

2. of metaphorical movement in general
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.11:

     Quotiēns in mentem vēnerit, quantum tibi in servum liceat, veniat in mentem tantundem in tē dominō tuō licēre.

     As often as it comes to mind how much power you have over your slave, let it [also] come to mind that your master has just as much over you.

3. (intransitive) to approach

• “venio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “venio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “venio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • something comes into my mind: mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei
    
  • to pass from myth to history: ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus
    
  • the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit
    
  • to make a thing a matter of conscience, be scrupulous about a thing: aliquid in religionem alicui venit
    
  • I have received a legacy from a person: hereditas ad me or mihi venit ab aliquo (Verr. 2. 1. 10)
    
  • an interregnum ensues: res ad interregnum venit or adducitur
    
  • matters have reached the fighting-stage: res ad arma venit
    
  • the fighting is now at close quarters: res ad manus venit
    
  • (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 pardon some one: alicui veniam dare (alicuius rei)
    
  • (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 strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
    
  • (ambiguous) to pardon a person: veniam dare alicui
    
  • (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)
    
  • (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    

• “venio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • something comes into my mind: mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei
    
  • to pass from myth to history: ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus
    
  • the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit
    
  • to make a thing a matter of conscience, be scrupulous about a thing: aliquid in religionem alicui venit
    
  • I have received a legacy from a person: hereditas ad me or mihi venit ab aliquo (Verr. 2. 1. 10)
    
  • an interregnum ensues: res ad interregnum venit or adducitur
    
  • matters have reached the fighting-stage: res ad arma venit
    
  • the fighting is now at close quarters: res ad manus venit
    
  • (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 pardon some one: alicui veniam dare (alicuius rei)
    
  • (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 strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
    
  • (ambiguous) to pardon a person: veniam dare alicui
    
  • (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)
    
  • (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt