English 'Venice' comes via French from Latin Venetia, named after the Veneti tribe — their name likely derives from PIE *wen- meaning 'to desire or strive', the same root that gave Latin 'Venus'.
A city in northeastern Italy built on a group of islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea, historically a major maritime republic.
English 'Venice' derives via Old French 'Venise' from Latin 'Venetia', the name of the Roman region. This in turn comes from the 'Veneti', an ancient Italic people who inhabited the area before Roman conquest. The Veneti spoke Venetic, an Indo-European language related to but distinct from Latin. The tribal name may derive from PIE *wen- meaning 'to desire, love, strive for' (compare Latin 'venus' meaning 'love, desire' and 'venari' meaning 'to hunt'). The modern Italian form 'Venezia' preserves the Latin more
The tribal name Veneti appears in multiple places across ancient Europe — not just in Italy but also in Brittany (the Veneti of Gaul, who gave their name to Vannes) and possibly in the Wends/Vends of the Baltic. Whether these represent a single dispersed people, a shared PIE word for 'kinsmen', or coincidence remains debated.