venatio

Latin. Doublet of venison.

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /weːˈnaː.ti.oː/

vēnātiō f (genitive vēnātiōnis); third declension

1. hunting, the chase, venery
2. hunt

Third declension.

• English: venison, venation
• French: venaison
• Italian: venagione
• Portuguese: veação
• Spanish: venación

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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