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Venus subrostrata

The Birth of Venus

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

Venus f

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

Venus's planetary symbol ⟨♀⟩

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

Venus (plural Venuses)

  1. (astronomy) The second planet in the 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. [...]
    • 1982 March 2, John Noble Wilford, “FIFTH SOVIET CRAFT LANDS ON VENUS AND IS FIRST TO SAMPLE PLANET'S SOIL”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 24, 2015, Science‎[3]:
      The robot craft, the fifth from the Soviet Union to land on Venus, 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 reach Venus Friday and probably put down on the plains east of the Phoebe landing site.
  2. (Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality; the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite.
    • 1888 June 2, “Senoritas of Brazil. [Chicago Mail.]”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XLVI, number 154, page 13, column 3:
      Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arch like rainbows, and are Cinderellian in size.
  3. A female given name

planet

goddess

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Venus (sense 3) of Willendorf

Venus (countable and uncountable, plural Venuses)

  1. (obsolete or poetry) Sexual activity or intercourse, sex; lust, love.
    • , 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.
  2. (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).
    • 1807, A New and Complete Encyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Vol III‎[4], 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[5], 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[6]:
      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).
  3. 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, “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, 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.

From Dutch Venus.

Venus

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

Venus f

  1. Venus (planet)

Venus f

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

From English Venus, from Latin.

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

Venus

  1. Venus (planet)

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

Venus f

  1. Venus (planet)

Venus

  1. Venus (Roman goddess)

Venus f

  1. Venus (planet)
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From Latin Venus.

Venus

  1. Venus (planet)
  2. Venus (Roman goddess)
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Venus f

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

Venus on German Wikipedia

Venus [2] und Amor (1525)

Learned borrowing from Latin Venus.

Venus f (proper noun, genitive **Venus)

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

(planet):

Venus f (genitive **Venus, no plural)

  1. (figuratively) very beautiful woman

From Latin Venus.

Venus f

  1. Venus (planet)
  2. Venus (Roman goddess)
  3. a female given name
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Borrowed from Dutch Venus, from Latin Venus.

Venus

  1. Venus
    1. (astronomy) The second planet in the Solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♀.
      Synonym: Zohrah
      Synonym: Zuhrah (Standard Malay)
    2. The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality; the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite.

From venus (“loveliness”), see there for more.

Venus f (genitive Veneris); third declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Venus (goddess of love and beauty)
  2. (astronomy) Venus (planet)
    Synonym: Lūcifer
  3. (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 dīvomque 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
  4. (alchemy, chemistry) copper
  5. See venus.

Third-declension noun.

  1. ^ “Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Liber Primus, line 1”, in Perseus Digital Library‎[1], 2022 October 28 (last accessed)

From Latin Venus.

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

Borrowed from Norwegian Venus.

Venus

  1. Venus (planet)
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

Venus

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

Borrowed from French Vénus, from Latin Venus.

Venus f

  1. Venus (planet)
  2. Venus (Roman goddess)
  3. A locality in Mangalia, Constanța, Romania

Venus f

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

Venus c (genitive **Venus)

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

Borrowed from English Venus, from Latin Venus.

Venus (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜈᜓᜐ᜔)

  1. a female given name from English