The corpus record — Latin

ventito

to come often

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Where it lives

Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Annales 5 · 0.56/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ventĭto — Lewis & Short

ventĭto, āre,

I v. freq. n. [id.], to come often, be wont to come, keep coming, resort (class.): multum ad eos (Ubios) mercatores ventitant, Caes. B. G. 4, 3: cum ipse ad Scaevolam ventitarem, Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 13: ad aliquem, id. Rep. 1, 9, 14; Caes. B. G. 5, 27: in castra, id. ib. 4, 32: domum, Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 6: cum ventitabas, quo puella ducebat, Cat. 8, 4: ad potum (elephanti), Sol. 52 med.

2. ventitö — Walde–Hofmann

ventitö, -äre „komme häufig, besuche* (seit Cic. und Caes.; vgl. cantitö, dictito usw.). Die meisten Komp. haben die ursprgl. lokale Bed., so adveniö „komme an“ und „ereigne mich“ (seit Plt., ebenso advena, adventus, -üs, adventor; adventicius seit Varro, adventörius seit Mart.; advento, -üre seit Enn., Plaut., Varro, rom, neben adventus und *advenicäre); antevenió seit Plc; circumvenió seit Naev.; däveniö , komme … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ventitö, p. 1656]

In the wild

ventitans Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.8.p2
ventitabat Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.2.7
ventitabat Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.6.3
ventitavere Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 43.1
ventitasse Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.22
ventitet Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.1.3

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ventitö (scan pp. 1656-1658; entry #3184). Root candidates: *ad-, *em-, *gra-.

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