a. [f. L. Venet-ī or Venet-ia + -IC.] Of or pertaining to the ancient Veneti or their country, or to the modern province of Venice.
1880. Encycl. Brit., XIII. 494/1. The population of the Venetian cities is ‘Venetian’ in language, but the country districts are in various ways Venetic.
1902. Nature, 2 Jan., 212/2. Inscriptions on the outside of their rims, said to be in Venetic or old North Etruscan alphabet. Ibid. (1903), 29 Oct., 635. A large admixture of Albanian, Venetic, or Slav intruders.
