venus

From translingual Venus (“a genus of clams”), from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːnəs/

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• Rhymes: -iːnəs
• Homophones: Venus, venous

venus (plural venuses)

1. Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.

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venus

1. conditional of veni

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venus m pl

1. masculine plural of venu

venus

1. conditional of venar

From Proto-Indo-European *wénh₁-os ~ *wénh₁-es-os n (“loveliness”), from the root *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”).^[1] Cognate with Sanskrit वनस् n (vánas, “loveliness, desire”) and possibly also cognate with Old Norse vanir. Although comparative evidence suggests that the name of the goddess Venus originated as a personification of the noun 'loveliness'; this Latin noun can be interpreted in the historical period as a figurative or transferred use of the goddess's name (note its feminine gender, as opposed to the neuter gender that is reconstructed for the original noun). Accordingly, many edited works capitalize the term.

Many educated authors (cf. A-Lapide, Comment. in Eccl. cap. 9 v. 11) trace its origin to ‘Ve’ (‘without’) and ‘nous’ (‘mind’), because it “blinds man and deprives him of mind”. Examples of using ‘ve’ as a primitive particle to form words are ‘vecors’, ‘without heart/health/mind’; ‘vesanus’, ‘without sanity, insane’.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.nus]

venus f (genitive veneris); third declension

1. (uncountable) loveliness, attractiveness, beauty, grace, elegance, charm
2. (countable) love, beloved (person or object)
3. See Venus.

Third-declension noun.

• → Oscan: ϝενζηι (venzēi, dat.sg.)^[1]

• see: Venus

• “venus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vēnus m

1. Theoretical form of vēnum used as lemma by some dictionaries.

Fourth/second-declension noun (defective), singular only.

• “venus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "venus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• venus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Venus, borrowed from Latin Venus. So named because of its astrological association with the planet.

venus (uncountable)

1. (rare) The reddish-brown metal; copper.
   • 1475, The Book of Quintessence:

     This water forsoþe is so strong, þat if a litil drope þerof falle vpon ȝoure hond, anoon it wole perce it þoruȝ-out; and in þe same maner it wole do, if it falle vpon a plate of venus.

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• Venus

• “Venus, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2018.

From Latin vēnōsus.

venus

1. venous