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Venus

See also: venus, Venüs, Vénus, and Vênus

TranslingualEdit

 
Venus subrostrata
 
The Birth of Venus

EtymologyEdit

Latin, after Venus (“goddess of beauty, love, sexual intercourse”). See images.

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Veneridae – typical venus clams.

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EnglishEdit

 
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Venus's planetary symbol

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus, from Proto-Italic *wenos.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus

  2. (astronomy) The second planet in our solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♀.
    • 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. [...]
  4. (Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality; the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite.
  5. a female given name
  6. (obsolete or poetry) Sexual activity or intercourse, sex; lust, love.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , II.ii.2:
      Immoderate Venus in excess, as it is a cause, or in defect; so, moderately used, to some parties an only help, a present remedy.

SynonymsEdit

  • (astronomy, astrology): ♀

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

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NounEdit

 
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Venus (sense 2) of Willendorf

Venus (countable and uncountable, plural Venuses)

  1. (historical, alchemy, chemistry) copper: A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
    • 1807, A New and Complete Encyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Vol III‎[2], page 48:
      CRYSTALS of Venus or of copper, called also vitriol of Venus, 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[3], page 89:
      Another pair of terms which caused some confusion were Spirit of Saturn and Spirit of Venus, names suggesting compounds of lead and copper respectively. Jean Beguin described the preparation from minium and distilled vinegar of a liquid he called burning spirit of Saturn, e cause 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 of Venus’ 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 the London Pharmacopoeia of 1721 gave the name Spiritus Veneris to sulphuric acid obtained by the distillation of copper sulphate.
    • 2013, John Read, From Alchemy to Chemistry‎[4]:
      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, and Venus 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 of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).
  2. Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.
    • 1986, Brian Hayden, “Old Europe: sacred matriarchy or complementary opposition?”, in Anthony 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), page 23:
      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 are Venuses.
    • 1990, D. Bruce Dickson, “An Interpretation”, in The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 211:
      However, a number of well-crafted studies in recent years have forcefully questioned—and perhaps refuted—the view that the Venuses were simply or solely goddesses.
    • 2016, Jean Clottes; Oliver Y. Martin and Robert D. Martin, transl., “Perceptions of the World, Functions of the Art, and the Artists”, in What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 148:
      Her proportions, the stylistic elements, the choice of anatomical elements represented are characteristic of the Aurignacian or Gravettian Venuses, known especially from the statuary of Central and Eastern Europe.

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch Venus.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: Ve‧nus

Proper nounEdit

Venus

  2. (astronomy) Venus
  4. (Roman mythology) Venus

See alsoEdit

AsturianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbenus/, [ˈbe.nus]

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)

CatalanEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

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

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CebuanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English Venus, from Latin.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus

  1. the second planet in our solar system after Mercury
  2. (Roman mythology) the goddess of love, beauty, and natural productivity;
  3. a female given name from Latin

DanishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus

  2. Venus (planet)

See alsoEdit

(planets of the solar system) planeter i solsystemet; Merkur,‎ Venus,‎ Jorden/‎jorden,‎ Mars,‎ Jupiter,‎ Saturn,‎ Uranus,‎ Neptun [edit]

DutchEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)

EstonianEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus

  2. Venus (Roman goddess)

FaroeseEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

  1. Venus (planet)

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[Term?] 		Triton Charon

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Venus.

PronunciationEdit

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

Proper nounEdit

Venus

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

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of Venus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative Venus —
genitive Venuksen —
partitive Venusta —
illative Venukseen —
singular plural
nominative Venus —
accusative nom. Venus —
gen. Venuksen
genitive Venuksen —
partitive Venusta —
inessive Venuksessa —
elative Venuksesta —
illative Venukseen —
adessive Venuksella —
ablative Venukselta —
allative Venukselle —
essive Venuksena —
translative Venukseksi —
instructive — —
abessive Venuksetta —
comitative — —
Possessive forms of Venus (type vastaus)
possessor singular plural
1st person Venukseni Venuksemme
2nd person Venuksesi Venuksenne
3rd person Venuksensa

CompoundsEdit

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moons 		— Kuu Phobos
Deimos 		— Io
Europa
Ganymedes
Kallisto 		Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Japetus
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon 		Triton Kharon

AnagramsEdit

GalicianEdit

 
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Proper nounEdit

Venus f

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

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GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin Venus.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus f (proper noun, genitive Venus)

  2. (astronomy) Venus
  4. (Roman mythology) Venus

Derived termsEdit

(planet):

NounEdit

Venus f (genitive Venus, no plural)

  1. (figuratively) very beautiful woman

DeclensionEdit

Declension of Venus [sg-only, feminine]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative eine die Venus
genitive einer der Venus
dative einer der Venus
accusative eine die Venus

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Venus.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

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

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moons 		— Tunglið Fóbos
Deimos 		— Íó
Evrópa
Ganýmedes
Kallistó 		Mímas
Enkeladus
Teþis
Díóne
Rea
Títan
Japetus
Míranda
Aríel
Úmbríel
Títanía
Óberon 		Tríton [Term?]

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *wenos (“love”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). See also Latin veneror, venia, Sanskrit वनस् (vánas, “loveliness, desire”), English wish.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus f (genitive Veneris); third declension

  2. Venus, Roman goddess of love
  3. The second planet from the Sun
  4. (poetic) metaphor for the genus of animation, living matter
    • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.1–5:[1]
      Aeneadum genetrīx, hominum divomque voluptās,
      alma Venus, 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,
        Dear Venus 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

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Venus Venerēs
Genitive Veneris Venerum
Dative Venerī Veneribus
Accusative Venerem Venerēs
Ablative Venere Veneribus
Vocative Venus Venerēs

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Italian: Venere
  • → English: Venus
  • → French: Vénus
  • → Portuguese: Vénus, Vênus
  • → Spanish: Venus

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Liber Primus, line 1”, in Perseus Digital Library‎[1], accessed 2022-10-28

Middle EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Venus, from Proto-Italic *wenos.

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus

  1. The Roman goddess governing love and sexuality; Venus.
  2. The planet closely associated with the evening: Venus.
    Synonyms: Vesper, even sterne, even sterre, eventide sterre, morwe sterre, morwetide sterre

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DescendantsEdit

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Northern SamiEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Norwegian Venus.

PronunciationEdit

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Proper nounEdit

Venus

  2. Venus (planet)

InflectionEdit

Odd, no gradation
Nominative Venus
Genitive Venusa
Singular Plural
Nominative Venus Venusat
Accusative Venusa Venusiid
Genitive Venusa Venusiid
Illative Venusii Venusiidda
Locative Venusis Venusiin
Comitative Venusiin Venusiiguin
Essive Venusin
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person Venusan Venuseamẹ Venuseamẹt
2nd person Venusat Venuseattẹ Venuseattẹt
3rd person Venusis Venuseaskkạ Venuseasẹt

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

NorwegianEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus

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

See alsoEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French Vénus, from Latin Venus.

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

  2. Venus (planet)
  4. Venus (Roman goddess)
  5. A locality in Mangalia, Constanța, Romania

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Proper nounEdit

Venus f

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

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Venus c (genitive Venus)

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

AnagramsEdit

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English Venus, from Latin Venus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbenus/, [ˈbe.nʊs]

Proper nounEdit

Venus

  1. a female given name from English
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