INUENERUNT, inuenerunt
Sounds Like: in-weh-NEH-roont
Translations: they found, they discovered, they invented
From the root: INUENIO
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person plural perfect active indicative form of the Latin verb 'inuenio'. It means 'they found' or 'they discovered'. It is a compound verb formed from 'in' (in, into) and 'uenio' (to come), literally meaning 'to come upon' or 'to come into'. It is used to describe an action of finding or discovering something that has been completed in the past.
Inflection: Perfect, Active, Indicative, Third Person, Plural
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, INUENIO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- INUENIET — will find, will discover, will invent, will come upon
- INUENISSE — to have found, to have discovered, to have come upon
- INUENIT — he found, she found, it found, he discovered, she discovered, it discovered, he invented, she invented, it invented
- INUENTUM — discovery, invention, a discovery, an invention, found thing, discovered thing, invented thing
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