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venus.

sale, purchase; (only sg. ACC/DAT w/dare); [venui dare => put up for sale];

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈwɛ.nʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈvɛː.nus]
  1. loveliness, attractiveness, beauty, grace, elegance, charm

    declension-3 · feminine · uncountable
  2. love, beloved (person or object)

    countable · declension-3 · feminine
Where this word comes from

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

noun
  1. hypothetical nominative singular of vēnum, used as a lemma by some dictionaries

    form-of · hypothetical · nominative · singular
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