# venus
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈviːnəs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːnəs
* Homophones: Venus, venous

### Noun

venus (plural venuses)
* Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.

#### Derived terms

* 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)

### Anagrams

* nevus

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

venus
* conditional of veni

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Participle

venus m pl
* masculine plural of venu

## Ido
### Verb

venus
* conditional of venar

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *wénh₁-os ~ *wénh₁-es-os n (“loveliness”), from the root *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). 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.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯e.nus/, [ˈu̯ɛnʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈve.nus/, [ˈvɛːnus]

#### Noun

venus f (genitive veneris); third declension
* (uncountable) loveliness, attractiveness, beauty, grace, elegance, charm
* (countable) love, beloved (person or object)
* See Venus.

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* Venus
* venustās
* venustus

##### Related terms

* veneror
* venia
* vēnor

##### Descendants

* → Oscan: ϝενζηι (venzēi, dat.sg.)
* see: Venus

#### References

* 1 2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “venus, -eris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 663

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

vēnus m
* Theoretical form of vēnum used as lemma by some dictionaries.

##### Declension

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

#### Further reading

* “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.

## Middle English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

venus (uncountable)
* (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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Synonyms

* coper

### See also

* Venus

### References

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

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Latin vēnōsus.

### Adjective

venus
* venous