venus
ven--us Vorlage:lat. ‘Liebe, Liebesgenuß, Anmut, Liebreiz, Geliebte’.
From Proto-Indo-European *wénh₁-os ~ *wénh₁-es-os n (“loveliness”), from the root *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”).[1] 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(key): /ˈu̯e.nus/, [ˈu̯ɛnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /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.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | venus | venerēs |
| Genitive | veneris | venerum |
| Dative | venerī | veneribus |
| Accusative | venerem | venerēs |
| Ablative | venere | veneribus |
| Vocative | venus | venerēs |