venatio

Learned borrowing from Latin venatio. Doublet of venison and venation.

venatio (countable and uncountable, plural venationes)

1. The hunting and slaying of wild animals as a form of entertainment in Ancient Roman amphitheaters.

From vēnor + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈnaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈnat.t͡si.o]

vēnātiō f (genitive vēnātiōnis); third declension

1. hunting, the chase, venery
2. hunt

Third-declension noun.

• “venatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “venatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "venatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “venatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “venatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin