Veneti

American  

[ven-i-tahy] / ˈvɛn ɪˌtaɪ /

Also Venetes

plural noun

1. an ancient people of NE Italy absorbed by Rome after the Second Punic War.

2. an ancient Celtic people of Brittany, conquered by Julius Caesar, 56 b.c.

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Veneti British  

/ vɛˈnɛtɪ, -taɪ /

noun

1. (functioning as plural) an ancient people who established themselves at the head of the Adriatic around 950 _bc , later becoming Roman subjects

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Etymology

Origin of Veneti

From Latin

Example Sentences

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Veneti

The central plain of the Po, between the Ligurians to the west and the Veneti to the east, was controlled by the Etruscans.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

ATRIA, a town of the Veneti, on the river Tartarus, between the Padus and the Athesis, now the Adige.

From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Cornelius Tacitus

I have a copy of an early edition, without printer's name or place of publication, and with the fictitious name Petri Suavis Polani; an anagram, though not an accurate one, of Pauli, Sarpis, Veneti.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The Kynetæ have reasonably been identified with the Veneti of Cæsar, whose native name is Gwynedd, and whose locality, in Western Brittany, exactly coincides with the notice of Herodotus.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

The most interesting episode is the creation of a fleet and the naval victory over the Veneti on the far-away coast of Brittany.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner