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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore blue. · Carlton Football Club. · New South Wales. · Birmingham City FC.
In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin venetī (“Sea-Blues”) or factio veneta (“the sea-blue faction”) and Medieval Greek Βένετοι (Bénetoi, “Blues”).
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- Borrowed-form mentionvenetusla
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