Where does “Venice” come from?

Venice comes from Middle English Venyse, from Old French Venise, from Medieval Latin Venetia, from Latin Veneti, the name of the Venetian people.

Venice (English): a republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean from 697 to 1797 with its capital at Venice

Definitions

  1. a republic and colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean from 697 to 1797 with its capital at Venice

Ancestry of “Venice”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishVenyse—
2Old FrenchVenise—
3Medieval LatinVenetiaVenice
4LatinVenetiVeneti (a Celtic tribe of Armorica in antiquity)

Words derived from “Venice”

Every word from Latin Veneti →Every word from Medieval Latin Venetia →Every word from Old French Venise →