Lemma 1uenio, uenire, veni, ventus

verb

to come

Morphology1 analysis

present indicative active 1st singularuen + io · regular

Lewis & Short

key · uenioFull entry

vĕnĭo, vēni, ventum, 4, v. n. [Sanscr. root gā, go; Zend root gā, gam, go; Gr.; Lat. ar-biter, venio; Goth. quiman; O. H. Germ. quëman, koman; Engl. come; v.]

I.fut. venibo, Pompon. ap.; imperf. venibat; gen. plur, part. sync. venientum, to come (cf. accedo).

II.Lit.: imus, venimus, videmus.: (cf. devenio). — With inf. — hereditas unicuique nostrum venit, comes, i. e. descends to each of us; hic segetes, illic veniunt felicius uvae, come forth, i. e. grow.

(b).Impers. pass., we, they, etc., came or have come, etc.: ad me ventum est, it has fallen to me.

B.Esp., to come. spring, be descended: Forbig. ad loc.

III.Trop.

A.In gen. ut jam a principio videndum sit, quemadmodum velis venire ad extremum orationis: contra amici summam existimationem — in Cic. with nom. only of neutr. pron. or res; but freq. impers. with gen.; also mens, II. B. fin. and the passages there cited. — With dat. — Of events, to come, i. e. to happen.

B.In partic.

1.Venire in aliquid (rarely ad aliquid; infra), to come into, fall into any state or condition (so esp. freq.): venisse alicui in amicitiam, to have obtained one's friendship or alliance — Of a personal subject; in eam opinionem Cassius veniebat, Cael. ap. — Esp. with res as subject, the affair came to, reached the point, etc. ad ultimum dimicationis rati rem venturam. — Impers.

(b).Ad aliquid: bene agis, Alba.

2.In speaking, to come to a topic.