venial

From Old French venial, from Late Latin veniālis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːni.əl/

venial (comparative more venial, superlative most venial)

1. Pardonable; able to be forgiven.

   • A venial sin.

   • Shelley, Mary, "The last man"

     He did not say that he should favour such an attempt; But he did say that such an attempt would be venial.

2. Excusable; trifling

   His venial youthful indiscretions.

Do not confuse venial behavior (mildly wrong behavior) with venal behavior (bribery/corruption).

• (pardonable): mortal

• Lavine, alevin, alvine, leavin', valine, veinal, vineal

• veniel

venial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular veniale)

1. venial

• English: venial (borrowed)

From Late Latin veniālis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

venial

1. venial

From Late Latin veniālis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veniˈaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨˈnjaɫ/

venial m or f (plural veniais, comparable)

1. venial (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
2. venial (excusable; trifling)

• perdoável

• venial in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From Late Latin veniālis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

• IPA^(key): /beˈnjal/
• Hyphenation: ve‧nial

venial (plural veniales)

1. venial, petty

• “venial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.