venus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːnəs/
• Rhymes: -iːnəs
• Homophones: Venus, venous

venus (plural venuses)

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

• sunray venus (Macrocallista nimbosa)
• cross-barred venus (Chione cancellata)
• lady-in-waiting venus (Chione intapurpurea)
• imperial venus (Lirophora latilirata)
• grey pygmy venus (Chione grus)
• striped venus clam (Chamelea gallina)
• elegant venus clam (Pitar dione)
• warty venus (Venus verrucosa)

• nevus

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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 (“loveliness”), from the root *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit वनस् (vánas, “loveliness, desire”) and possibly also cognate with Old Norse vanir and Old English wana (“gods of love”). Some sources, assuming the theonym Venus being the primary sense, consider the plain sense “loveliness” as figurative or transferred, and similarly many edited works show the term as capitalised. Etymological evindence, on the other hand, shows how it is the name of the goddess that derives from this, the original sense, through personification.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯e.nus/, [ˈu̯ɛnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.nus/, [ˈvɛːnus]

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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• coper

• Venus

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

From Latin vēnōsus.

venus

1. venous