veni-

1. variant of veno- before a vowel:

   venipuncture.

Example Sentences

"Veni... vidi... Bini!" an ecstatic British commentator boomed as zoomed past finish line.

From BBC

After the sermon, the ancient hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus is sung in languages from across the United Kingdom, calling on the Holy Spirit just before the most sacred part of the Coronation rite - the anointing with holy oil.

From BBC

“Five years after what happened to Yuyun, we are still at the same place,” said Veni Siregar, a longtime advocate for female abuse victims.

From Los Angeles Times

Veni blamed the crisis on the country’s weak laws, which have emboldened abusive men to act with impunity and discouraged police from seriously investigating assaults.

From Los Angeles Times

It read: “VDVICI,” an abbreviation for the triumphant words Julius Caesar is supposed to have once written to the Roman Senate, “veni, vidi, vici” — Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

From Seattle Times

Words That Use veni-

What does veni- mean?

Veni- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “vein.” A vein, in contrast to an artery, is one of the systems of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.

Veni- is occasionally used in medical terms, especially in anatomy and pathology.

Veni- comes from the Latin vēna, meaning “blood vessel, vein.” The Latin word vēna is also ultimately the source of such vein-based words as venous. 

Veni– is a variant of veno-.

Want to know more? Read our Words That Use veno- article. Also see our Words That Use ven- and Words That Use vene- for even more forms.

Examples of veni-

OK, if you’re squeamish, you’ve been warned!

An example of a word you may have encountered that features veni- is venipuncture (also called venepuncture), the piercing of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes as well as to collect blood specimens for analysis.

The first part of the word, veni- refers to “vein,” as we’ve seen. The second part of the word, –puncture, ultimately comes from a Latin word for “a pricking.” That means venipuncture breaks down to “a pricking of the vein.”

What are some other forms that veni- may be commonly confused with?

• vivi-
• vini-

Many other words begin with the letters veni-, from venial to Venice, but do not use veni- as a combining form to mean “vein.”

Nor does veni have anything to do with the Latin phrase Veni, vidi, vici! This oft-quoted saying, legendarily declared by Julius Caesar, means “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

Break it down!

The word section ultimately comes from a Latin word meaning “a cutting.” With the meaning of veni- and its variants in mind, what is a venisection?