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Venetic

/vəˈnɛtɪk/

Venetic adjective: of or related to the Veneti, an ancient people of northeastern Italy.

Adjective

Venetic (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of or related to the Veneti, an ancient people of northeastern Italy.
  2. (historical) Of or related to the Veneti, an ancient people of northern Brittany.
  3. (historical) Of or related to Venetic, the language of the Adriatic Veneti.
  4. Of or related to the Veneto, the mainland opposite Venice.
    Synonyms:
    Venetian

Proper noun

Venetic

  1. (historical) An extinct Indo-European language once spoken by the Veneti people who lived between the Po River delta in northeastern Italy and the southern Alps in Slovenia in antiquity.

Synonyms of Venetic

Origin of Venetic

From Latin veneticus, from Venetia (“land of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto”) + -icus (“-ic: forming adjectives”), from Venetī + -ia, of uncertain origin. Equivalent to Veneti + -ic.

Questions about Venetic

What does Venetic mean?
Venetic means of or related to the Veneti, an ancient people of northeastern Italy.
What part of speech is Venetic?
Venetic can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Venetic?
Venetic is pronounced /vəˈnɛtɪk/.

Words near Venetic in the dictionary

  1. Venetian white
  2. Venetian whites
  3. venetianed
  4. Venetianness
  5. venetians
  6. Venetic
  7. Venetism
  8. Venetist
  9. Venetists
  10. Veneto
  11. venetoclax

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