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See also:venus,Venüs,Vénus,andVênus
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Translingual

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Venus subrostrata.

Etymology

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Latin, afterVenus(“goddess of beauty, love, sexual intercourse”).

Proper noun

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Venus f

  1. A taxonomicgenus within thefamilyVeneridae –typicalvenus clams.

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References

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English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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Venus's planetary symbol [♀].
The Birth of Venus byBotticelli.

Etymology

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FromMiddle EnglishVenus, fromLatinVenus.

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Proper noun

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Venus (pluralVenusesorVeneres)

  2. (astronomy) The secondplanet in theSolar system.
    Synonym:♀(symbol in astronomy and astrology)
    Near-synonyms:morning star,Phosphorus,Eosphorus,Lucifer;evening star,Vesper,Hesperus
    • The Illustrated London Almanack 1867, London, page 45:
      Venus rises on the 1st day 1/4 to 5 a.m., and 4h. 25m. a.m. on the last day. […] She is now beginning to move northward.
    • 1982 March 2,John Noble Wilford, “FIFTH SOVIET CRAFT LANDS ON VENUS AND IS FIRST TO SAMPLE PLANET'S SOIL”, inThe New York Times‎[3],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on24 May 2015, Science‎[4]:
      The robot craft, the fifth from the Soviet Union to land onVenus, is a module detached from Venera 13. It plunged through the dense, baking-hot carbon dioxide atmosphere and touched down in the foothills of a mountainous region known as Phoebe, just south of the Venusian equator and also below the active volcanic region of Beta. An identical lander, from Venera 14, is expected to reachVenus Friday and probably put down on the plains east of the Phoebe landing site.
  4. (Romanmythology) Thegoddess oflove,beauty,fertility, andsexuality.
    Coordinate term:(Greek counterpart)Aphrodite
    • 1884 January 8, “POPULARITY OF THE VENUS DE MILO.”, inThe New York Times‎[5], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on13 December 2025:
      Of all the classicVenuses known to us in modern times, thisVenus of Milo is certainly the most popular.
    • 1958,Edgar Wind, “Sacred and Profane Love”, inPagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, New Haven, Conn.:Yale University Press,→OCLC,page126:
      To call either or both of them by the name ofVenus seems to me too positive; for although the theory of love which they embody was unquestionably associated with the twoVenuses in Plato, ‘one draped, the other nude’, it is important to observe that, in contradistinction to Botticelli and Mantegna, Titian endowed the figures with attributes and characters which transcend the mythological idiom.
    • a.1964,C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Belphoebe, Amoret, and the Garden of Adonis”, inAlastair Fowler, editor,Spenser’s Image of Life, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, published1967,→LCCN,→OCLC, section 3,page51:
      Now from Ficino’sIn Platonis Convivium we learn that for the Neoplatonic philosopher there are twoVeneres, not one. The first of these ‘twinVeneres’ is theVenus coelestis, born of Coelus alone, without a mother—sincemater interpreted philosophically impliesmateria, and she is altogether immaterial.
    • 2014 January 30,Roberta Smith, “The Mythic and Heroic, Just Inches Tall […]”, inThe New York Times‎[6], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on31 January 2014:
      Portable bronze statuettes began to proliferate in mid-15th-century Italy as antique medals,[…] With their emphasis on mythological power struggles and sex — Hercules crushing Antaeus was big, as were upright or recliningVenuses and nymphs — the statuettes were also status symbols.
  5. A femalegiven name.
    • 2022 November 1, Hilarie M. Sheets, “Behind 3 Champions’ Smithsonian Portraits”, inThe New York Times‎[7], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on1 November 2022:
      A mirrored[Venus] Williams, shown from behind and in profile, wears a tennis skirt made of raffia and the Wimbledon trophy dish refashioned as a collared chestplate apropos for a warrior superhero.[…] Pruitt sees “a fertile space of reflection” between his twoVenuses. “My hope,” he said, “is that the duality of the portrait gives us this sense of a person looking back at themselves, considering where they came from and where they’re going.”

Derived terms

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Translations

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planet
goddess

See also

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Solar System in English ·Solar System(layout ·text)
StarSun
IAU planets and
notable dwarf planets		MercuryVenusEarthMarsCeresJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePlutoEris
Notable
moons		——MoonPhobos
Deimos		—Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto		Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Iapetus
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon		TritonCharonDysnomia

Noun

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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"This year Venuses [Noun sense 3 ] again... always Venuses!... as if there really were women built like that!" Lithograph byDaumier, 1864.
Venus (Noun sense 4 )of Willendorf.

Venus (countable anduncountable,pluralVenusesorVeneres)

  1. (uncountable, poetic, otherwise obsolete)Sexual activity or intercourse;sex;lust,love.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC:
      , II.ii.2:
      ImmoderateVenus in excess, as it is a cause, or in defect; so, moderately used, to some parties an only help, a present remedy.
  2. (uncountable, obsolete, alchemy and chemistry)Copper (a reddish-brown,malleable,ductilemetallicelement).
    • 1807,A New and Complete Encyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Vol III‎[8], page48:
      CRYSTALS ofVenus or ofcopper, called also vitriol ofVenus, is copper reduced into the form of vitriol by spirit of nitre, or by dissolving verdegris in good distilled vinegar, till the acid be saturated; it is very caustic and used to eat off proud flesh. It is also used by painters, and manufacturers, and sold under the name of distilled vinegar. See CHEMISTRY.
    • 2004, Maurice P. Crosland,Historical Studies in the Language of Chemistry‎[9], page89:
      Another pair of terms which caused some confusion wereSpirit of Saturn andSpirit ofVenus, names suggesting compounds of lead and copper respectively. Jean Beguin described the preparation from minium and distilled vinegar of a liquid he calledburning spirit of Saturn, because it was inflammable and he thought it was a compound of lead. Actually the lead takes no part in the reaction and the product of distilling lead acetate is impure acetone. Beguin’s terminology did not go without comment however, for Christopher Glaser later referred to ‘A burning Spirit of Saturn (as it is called) but rather, a Spirit of the Volatile Salt of Vinegar’. Tachenius referred to the product of distillation of copper acetate as ‘pretended spirit ofVenus’ because it was really only distilled vinegar - the meaning which Macquer gave to the expression. It is typical of the confusion of terminology in early chemistry that theLondon Pharmacopoeia of 1721 gave the nameSpiritusVeneris to sulphuric acid obtained by the distillation of copper sulphate.
    • 2013, John Read,From Alchemy to Chemistry‎[10]:
      The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, andVenus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol ofVenus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).
  4. (countable, art) Any depiction of anidealized orerotic figure of anude woman, especially one in amythological setting.
    • 1888 May 16, “They Love Americans […]”, in W. H. Canon, editor,Northern Wisconsin News, volume10, number19, Merrill, Wis.,page[7], column 1:
      Their figures are universally models for brunetteVenuses, and their feet arched like rainbows, andCinderellan in size.
  6. (countable) AnyUpper Palaeolithicstatuette portraying a woman, usually carvedin the round.
    • 1986, Brian Hayden, “Old Europe: sacred matriarchy or complementary opposition?”, inAnthony Bonanno, editor,Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean: Papers Presented at the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, University of Malta, 2–5 September 1985, Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner Publishing Co.,→ISBN, section I (Prehistory), page23:
      While the goddess statues obviously did function in a very public, domestic context, there is no evidence that they were androgynyous or that they were the primary cult of importance. There are probably just as many phalli in the Paleolithic as there areVenuses.
    • 1990, D. Bruce Dickson, “An Interpretation”, inThe Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, Tucson, Ariz.:The University of Arizona Press, published1996,→ISBN, page211:
      However, a number of well-crafted studies in recent years have forcefully questioned—and perhaps refuted—the view that theVenuses were simply or solely goddesses.
    • 2016,Jean Clottes, “Perceptions of the World, Functions of the Art, and the Artists”, in Oliver Y. Martin, Robert D. Martin, transl.,What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity, Chicago, Ill.; London:The University of Chicago Press,→ISBN, page148:
      Her proportions, the stylistic elements, the choice of anatomical elements represented are characteristic of the Aurignacian or GravettianVenuses, known especially from the statuary of Central and Eastern Europe.

References

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  • “Venus”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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FromDutchVenus.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:Ve‧nus

Proper noun

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Venus

  2. (astronomy)Venus
  4. (Romanmythology)Venus

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Asturian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbenus/[ˈbe.nus]
  • Rhymes:-enus
  • Syllabification:Ve‧nus

Proper noun

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Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. (Romanmythology)Venus (Roman goddess)

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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FromEnglishVenus, fromLatin.

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Venus

  1. the secondplanet in oursolar system afterMercury
  2. (Romanmythology) thegoddess oflove,beauty, andnaturalproductivity;
  3. a femalegiven name from Latin

Danish

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DanishWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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FromLatinVenus.

Proper noun

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Venus (genitiveVenus')

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. (Romanmythology)Venus

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinVenus.

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Venus f

  2. Venus(planet)
  3. Venus(Roman goddess)

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Estonian

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Proper noun

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Venus

  2. Venus (Roman goddess)

Faroese

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Proper noun

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Venus f

  1. Venus(planet)

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Solar System in Faroese ·Sólskipanin(layout ·text)
StarSólin
IAU planets and
notable dwarf planets		MerkurVenusJørðinMars[Term?]JupiterSaturnUranusNeptunPlutoEris
Notable
moons		——MáninPhobos
Deimos		—Io
Europa
Ganymedes
Callisto		[Term?]
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[Term?]
[Term?]
[Term?]
Titan
[Term?]
[Term?]
[Term?]
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[Term?]
[Term?]		TritonCharonDysnomia

Finnish

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Etymology

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FromLatinVenus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʋe(ː)nus/,[ˈʋe̞(ː)nus̠]
  • Rhymes:-enus
  • Syllabification(key):Ve‧nus
  • Hyphenation(key):Ve‧nus

Proper noun

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Venus

  2. Venus(planet)
  4. Venus(Roman goddess)

Declension

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Inflection ofVenus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominativeVenusVenukset
genitiveVenuksenVenusten
Venuksien
partitiveVenustaVenuksia
illativeVenukseenVenuksiin
singularplural
nominativeVenusVenukset
accusativenom.VenusVenukset
gen.Venuksen
genitiveVenuksenVenusten
Venuksien
partitiveVenustaVenuksia
inessiveVenuksessaVenuksissa
elativeVenuksestaVenuksista
illativeVenukseenVenuksiin
adessiveVenuksellaVenuksilla
ablativeVenukseltaVenuksilta
allativeVenukselleVenuksille
essiveVenuksenaVenuksina
translativeVenukseksiVenuksiksi
abessiveVenuksettaVenuksitta
instructive—Venuksin
comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms ofVenus(Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

Derived terms

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compounds

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Solar System in Finnish ·Aurinkokunta(layout ·text)
StarAurinko
IAU planets and
notable dwarf planets		MerkuriusVenusMaa (Tellus)MarsCeresJupiterSaturnusUranusNeptunusPlutoEris
Notable
moons		——KuuPhobos
Deimos		—Io
Europa
Ganymedes
Kallisto		Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Japetus
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon		TritonKharonDysnomia

Anagrams

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Galician

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GalicianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediagl

Proper noun

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Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. Venus (Roman goddess)

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German

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 Venus on German Wikipedia
Venus [2] und Amor (1525)

Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinVenus.

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Proper noun

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Venus f (proper noun,genitiveVenus)

  2. (astronomy)Venus
  4. (Romanmythology)Venus

Derived terms

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(goddess):

(planet):

Noun

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Venus f (genitiveVenus,no plural)

  1. (figuratively) verybeautifulwoman

Declension

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Declension ofVenus [sg-only, feminine]
singular
indef.def.noun
nominativeeinedieVenus
genitiveeinerderVenus
dativeeinerderVenus
accusativeeinedieVenus

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinVenus.

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Venus f (proper noun,genitive singularVenusar)

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. Venus (Roman goddess)
  5. a femalegiven name

Declension

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Declension ofVenus (sg-only feminine)
indefinite singular
nominativeVenus
accusativeVenus,Venusi
dativeVenus,Venusi
genitiveVenusar

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Solar System in Icelandic ·Sólkerfið(layout ·text)
StarSólin
IAU planets and
notable dwarf planets		MerkúrVenusJörðinMarsSeresJúpíterSatúrnusÚranusNeptúnusPlútóEris
Notable
moons		——TungliðFóbos
Deimos		—Íó
Evrópa
Ganýmedes
Kallistó		Mímas
Enkeladus
Teþis
Díóne
Rea
Títan
Japetus
Míranda
Aríel
Úmbríel
Títanía
Óberon		TrítonKaronDysnómía

Indonesian

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Etymology

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FromDutchVenus, fromLatinVenus.

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Venus

  1. Venus
    1. (astronomy) the second planet in the Solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♀
      Synonym:Zohrah(rare)
    3. (Romanmythology) the Roman goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality

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Solar System in Indonesian ·Tata Surya(layout ·text)
StarMatahari
IAU planets and
notable dwarf planets		MerkuriusVenusBumiMarsCeresJupiterSaturnusUranusNeptunusPlutoEris
Notable
moons		——BulanFobos
Deimos		—Io
Europa
Ganimede
Kalisto		Mimas
Enseladus
Tetis
Dione
Rea
Titan
Iapetus
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon		TritonKharonDisnomia

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Latin

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Etymology

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Fromvenus(“loveliness”), see there for more.

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Venus f (genitiveVeneris);third declension

  1. (Romanmythology)Venus(goddess oflove andbeauty)
  2. (astronomy)Venus(planet)
    Synonyms:Lūcifer,vesper
  3. (poetic) metaphor for the genus of animation, living matter
    • c. 99BCE – 55BCE,Lucretius,De rerum natura1.1–5:[1]
      Aeneadum genetrīx, hominum dīvomque voluptās,
      almaVenus, caelī subter lābentia signa
      quae mare nāvigerum, quae terrās frūgiferentīs
      concelebrās, per tē quoniam genus omne animantum
      concipitur
      • 1916 translation by William Ellery Leonard
        Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
        DearVenus that beneath the gliding stars
        Makest to teem the many-voyaged main
        And fruitful lands - for all of living things
        Through thee alone are evermore conceived
  4. (alchemy, chemistry)copper
  5. (dice games) the bestthrow at thedice
    Antonyms:canīcula,canis
    Coordinate terms:vulturius,basilicus;bīniō,terniō,quaterniō,quīniō,sēniō
    • 121CE,Suetonius,De Vita Caesarum, volume Aug.71:
      Talis enim iactatis, ut quisque canem aut senionem miserat, in singulos talos singulos denarios in medium conferebat, quos tollebat uniuersos, quiVenerem iecerat
      When thetali (an oblong dice) would be thrown, those who had gotten an ace or a six had to place a denarius in the middle of the table for each dice thrown, the one that would achieve in getting aVenus won it all.
  6. Seevenus.

Usage notes

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The Old Latin formVenerus shows the rare genitive singular ending-us instead of the standard Classical Latin ending-is. This unique ending is poorly attested and largely exclusive to religious or legal documents.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singularplural
nominativeVenusVenerēs
genitiveVenerisVenerum
dativeVenerīVeneribus
accusativeVeneremVenerēs
ablativeVenereVeneribus
vocativeVenusVenerēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • “Venus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Coleman, Robert (1990), “Dialectal Variation in Republican Latin, with Special Reference to Praenestine”, inProceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society‎[11], number36 (216) (quotation in English; overall work in English),→ISSN, page 8
  1. ^“Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Liber Primus, line 1”, inPerseus Digital Library‎[1], 28 October 2022 (last accessed)

Middle English

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Etymology

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FromLatinVenus.[1]

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Proper noun

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Venus

  1. TheRoman goddess governing love and sexuality;Venus.
  2. Theplanet closely associated with theevening: Venus.
    Synonyms:Vesper,even sterne,even sterre,eventide sterre,morwe sterre,morwetide sterre

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References

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  1. ^“Venus,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved14 June 2018.
  2. ^Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957),English pronunciation 1500-1700‎[2], second edition, volume II: Phonology,Oxford:Clarendon Press, published1968,→OCLC,§ 110,page616.

Northern Sami

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromNorwegianVenus.

Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino)IPA(key): /ˈvenuːs/

Proper noun

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Venus

  2. Venus (planet)

Inflection

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Odd, no gradation
NominativeVenus
GenitiveVenusa
SingularPlural
NominativeVenusVenusat
AccusativeVenusaVenusiid
GenitiveVenusaVenusiid
IllativeVenusiiVenusiidda
LocativeVenusisVenusiin
ComitativeVenusiinVenusiiguin
EssiveVenusin
Possessive forms
SingularDualPlural
1st personVenusanVenuseamẹVenuseamẹt
2nd personVenusatVenuseattẹVenuseattẹt
3rd personVenusisVenuseaskkạVenuseasẹt

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Further reading

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  • Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008),Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[12], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian

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Proper noun

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Venus

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. Venus (Roman goddess)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchVénus, fromLatinVenus.

Proper noun

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Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. Venus (Roman goddess)
  5. alocality inMangalia,Constanța County,Romania

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbenus/[ˈbe.nus]
  • Rhymes:-enus
  • Syllabification:Ve‧nus

Proper noun

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Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)
  3. (Romanmythology)Venus (Roman goddess)

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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planet
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Venus c (genitiveVenus)

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. Venus (Roman goddess)

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishVenus, fromLatinVenus.

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Venus (Baybayin spellingᜊᜒᜈᜓᜐ᜔)

  1. a femalegiven name from English
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