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Venice en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvɛnɪs/
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Etymology

From Middle English Venyse, from Old French Venise or Old Italian, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Venetī + -ia (suffix forming place names), a local tribe in antiquity whose own little-attested language is now known as Venetic. Initial scholarly agreement that they were Illyrian was based on arguments since refuted. They worshipped Belenus and were possibly Celtic or heavily influenced by Celtic culture, despite repeatedly supporting the Romans against the Gauls. Compare the identical ethnonym Venetī used for Celts of Armorica (ancient Britanny) from Gaulish Uenetoi (“friendly ones, kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a modified form of *wenyā (“kindred”). Widely but mistakenly derived by the ancient Greeks and Romans from the Eneti of Pamphylia, supposed to have fled to the Adriatic and become the Veneti after supporting the losing side of the Trojan War. As American places, named after the Italian city. Doublet of Venetia and Venezia.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Venice and the region of Veneto, Italy; former capital of an independent republic.
   • As I indicated at the outset, for us Shakespeare's Venetian plays lie between the early modern republic described in Chapter 2, and all the subsequent Venices of our experience, education and imagination, […] 2010, Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and Venice, →ISBN, page 141:
   • An. The Duke cannot deny the courſe of law: / for the commoditie that ſtrangers haue / With vs in Venice, if it be denied, / Will much impeach the iuſtice of the State, / Since that the trade and profit of the citty / Conſiſteth of all Nations. c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 176:
2. (countable, uncountable) A metropolitan city of Veneto, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Venice.
3. (countable, historical, uncountable) A former province of Veneto.
4. (countable, historical, uncountable) A former polity in Europe, a republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean from CE 697 to 1797 with its capital at Venice.
5. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
   • While Santa Monica has a longstanding prohibition against public camping that includes living in vehicles, the van rental business has been a problem in Venice for years. 2023 May 19, Matthew Hall, “Los Angeles Councilwoman targets “vanlord” industry”, in Santa Monica Daily Press, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2026:
6. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ A city in Sarasota County, Florida.
7. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ A township in Madison County, Illinois.
8. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ A township in Shiawassee County, Michigan.
9. (countable, uncountable) A place in the United States: ▸ A township in Seneca County, Ohio.

Forms

Deriveds

Venice blue · Venice turpentine · Little Venice · Venice Beach · Venice talc · Venice treacle · Republic of Venice · Gulf of Venice · Venice soap · gold of Venice · Most Serene Republic of Venice · Venice of the North

Descendants

Fenis · 威尼斯 · ヴェニス · ベニス · 베니스 · Venis

Hyponyms

Santa Croce (Italian city) · San Polo (Italian city) · San Marco (Italian city) · Castello (Italian city) · Dorsoduro (Italian city) · Cannaregio (Italian city)

Relateds

Venezia · Venezia · Venetian · Venetic · Venezia · Veneti · Veneto

Synonyms

lagoon city · Most Serene Republic of Venice · Serenissima · Republic of Venice · Serenissima

Translations (124)

bo ཝེ་ནེ་ཟི་ཡ། (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · no Venezia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · is Feneyjar (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · el Βενετία (former republic) · grc Ἐνετία (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · fr Venise (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · uk Вене́ція (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · da Venedig (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · hi वेनिस (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · vec Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia (former republic) · ne भेनिस (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · mr व्हेनेच्च्या (former republic) · el Ενετία (former republic) · la Venetia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · pt Veneza (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · eo Venecio (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · pl Republika Wenecka (former republic) · am ቬኒስ (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · lld Unieja (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · enm Venyse (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ru Венецианская республика (former republic) · vi Vơ-ni-dơ (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · gur Vɛnɩsɩ (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · et Veneetsia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · lt Venecijos Respublika (former republic) · fy Feneesje (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · hu Velence (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · vec Venezsia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · fur Vignesie (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · vec Venesia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · he ונציה (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · vec Venèsia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · lt Venecijos Šviesiausioji Respublika (former republic) · te వెనిస్ (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · grc Βενέτζια (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · fr République de Venise (former republic) · ab Уанаҿа (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · oc Venèsia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ba Венеция (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · mr व्हेनिस (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · bg Вене́ция (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · vec Venèzsia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · nrf Venise (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · oc Venècia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · fa ونیز (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · es República de Venecia (former republic) · sk Benátky (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · la Venetiae (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · mr व्हेनिस (former republic) · sl Benétke (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · sq E forkthjellta republikë e Venedikut (former republic) · fo Venesia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · el Ενετία (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ko 베니스 (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ar اَلْبُنْدُقِيَّة (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · it Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia (former republic) · ka ვენეცია (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ko 베네치아 (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · vi Uy Nê Tư (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ga Veinéis (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · fi Venetsia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · frm Venisse (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ur وینس (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · cs Benátky (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · sh Венеција (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · tl Benesya (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · mr व्हेनेच्च्या (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · arz فينيسيا (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ota وندیك (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · bn বন্দুকিয়া (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · gur Venetia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · de Venedig (former republic) · vec République de Venise (former republic) · vec Venèxia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · be Вене́цыя (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · cy Fenis (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ta வெனிசு (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ca Venècia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · sv Venedig (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · mk Вене́ција (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · es Serenísima República de Venecia (former republic) · ru Вене́ция (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · el Βενέτσια (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · km វេនីស (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · hy Վենետիկ (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · cmn 威尼斯 (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · mt Venezja (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · lt Venecija (former republic) · yue 威尼斯 (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · cs Benátská republika (former republic) · scn Vinezzia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · lv Venēcija (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · el Βενετία (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · yi ווענעציע (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ja ヴェネツィア (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · nl Venetië (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · bg Венециа́нска репу́блика (former republic) · tr Venedik (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · lld Unieja (former republic) · fi Venetsia (former republic) · ro Veneția (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · de Venedig (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · id Venesia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · pl Wenecja (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · sh Venecija (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · vec Venexia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · gl Venecia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · el Βενέτσια (former republic) · nrf V'nise (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · es Venecia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ja ヴェニス (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · la Serenissima Respublica Venetiae (former republic) · grc Βενέτζια (former republic) · ms ۏينيس (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ja ベネチア (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · sv Venedig (former republic) · mi Wēneti (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ms Venis (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · it Repubblica di Venezia (former republic) · da Venedig (former republic) · it Venezia (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · it Venezia (former republic) · lt Venecija (city and metropolitan city in Italy) · ja ベニス (city and metropolitan city in Italy)

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