French 'venue' (a coming), from Latin 'venire' (to come) — cousin of 'adventure,' 'event,' and 'come.'
The place where something happens, especially an organized event such as a concert, conference, or sports event.
From Old French venue (a coming, an arrival, the act of coming to a place), the feminine past participle of venir (to come), from Latin venīre (to come, to approach, to arrive), from PIE *gʷem- (to go, to come, to step). The PIE root *gʷem- is among the most productive in Indo-European: it gives Latin convenīre (to come together, whence convene and convention), pervenīre (to arrive), invenīre (to come upon, whence invent and invention), and through Greek bainein (to walk, to step) the English elements -base and -basis. Venue entered English in the 16th century as a precise legal term — the county or district from which a jury
The word 'venue' literally means 'a coming' — the place to which people come. Its cousin 'avenue' is 'a way of coming toward' (from Latin 'advenire'), and 'adventure' was originally 'a thing about to come' (from 'adventura'). Even 'souvenir' belongs to this family: French 'souvenir' means 'to remember,' from Latin 'subvenire' (to come to mind, literally 'to come up from below').