different between bienvenue vs venue

French

Etymology

From Old French bienvenue; literally bien (“well”) +? venue (“come, coming”); compare also bienvenu (without the -e). Presumably a calque of an Old Frankish term, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwumô (“a welcome guest or arrival”), from which many modern Germanic forms descend, as English welcome.

Its use in the sense “you’re welcome” is recent and found only in Canada, due to influence from English; English “you’re welcome” dates from early 20th century, French Canadian usage correspondingly later.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bj??.v(?).ny/

Noun

bienvenue f (plural bienvenues)

1. welcome

   Mesdames et messieurs, je vous souhaite la bienvenue.

   Ladies and gentlemen, I bid you welcome.

Derived terms

• bienvenue au club
• prime de bienvenue

Interjection

bienvenue

1. welcome!

   Bienvenue à Paris!

   Welcome to Paris!

2. (Quebec) you're welcome (as an answer to thank you)

   Merci pour le party!

   Bienvenue.

   Thanks for the party!

   You're welcome.

Adjective

bienvenue

1. feminine singular of bienvenu

Further reading

• “bienvenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English venu, from Old French venue, the feminine singular past participle of venir. Doublet of veny.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?nju?/
• Rhymes: -?nju?

Noun

venue (plural venues)

1. A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.
2. (law) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes.

   • The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made.

3. (obsolete) A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew.
4. (sports) Sport venue: a stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.

Usage notes

In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue, which is to direct the trial to be had in a different county from that where the venue is laid.

Synonyms

See come, and confer venew, veney.

Hyponyms

• stadium
• arena

Related terms

• lay a venue
• bienvenue

Translations

Anagrams

• Neveu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.ny/

Noun

venue f (plural venues)

1. coming, arrival

   • [S]carce had the little birds shaded of a thousand colours hailed from the harps of their tongues, in a soft and mellifluous harmony, the coming of the pink-tinted dawn, ... when the famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha ... took his route across the ancient and famous Campo de Montiel.

   Synonym: arrivée

Verb

venue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of venir

Further reading

• “venue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• neuve, neveu