Venetia

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Venetia

1. A female given name from Latin of debated meaning used since the late Middle Ages.

• naivete, naiveté, naïvete, naïveté

• Venetiae (town of Venice)

From the Pre-Roman substrate population of the Venetī, name of an ancient people, of possibly Illyrian origin[1]. More at Venice.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯eˈne.ti.a/, [u̯ɛˈnɛt̪iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈnet.t͡si.a/, [veˈnɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]

Venetia f sg (genitive Venetiae); first declension

1. the country of the Veneti
2. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Venice

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Venetī
• venetus