The Vennones or Vennonetes were a Gallic or Rhaetian tribe dwelling in the northern Alps, between Chur and Lake Constance, during the Iron Age and the Roman era.
If Celtic, and not Rhaetic, it can be derived from the root ueno- ('friend'), with a sound shift -n- > -nn- attested in other cases (e.g. Vena / Venna),[5][4] or else from to uenno- (< *uegno-), meaning 'chariot'.
[7] Their territory was located north of the Calucones, west of the Estiones, Focunates and Genaunes, south of the Brigantii.
[8] Pliny described the Vennones and Sarunetes as "Rhaetian tribes living near the sources of the river Rhine".
In the secondary tradition of the text by Pliny the Elder their position in the list was exchanged with the Venostes and the Vennonetes appear as the fourth tribe.