Venus

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

Venus f

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

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Bivalvia – class; Autobranchia – subclass; Heteroconchia – superorder; Venerida – order; Veneroidea – superfamily; Veneridae – family

• (genus): Venus verrucosa (warty venus) – type species; for other species see Venus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Venus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Venus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Venus (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Venus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Venus at World Register of Marine Species
• Venus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈviːnəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvinəs/, [ˈvinɪ̈s]
• (Ghana) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛ.nɐs]

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• Rhymes: -iːnəs
• Homophones: venus, venous
• Hyphenation: Ve‧nus

Venus (plural Venuses or Veneres)

2. (astronomy) The second planet in the Solar system.

   Synonym: ♀ (symbol in astronomy and astrology)

   Near-synonyms: morning star, Phosphorus, Eosphorus, Lucifer; evening star, Vesper, Hesperus

   • 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^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Science‎^[4]:

     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.

4. (Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality, or a depiction thereof.

   Coordinate term: (Greek counterpart) Aphrodite

   • 1884 January 8, “POPULARITY OF THE VENUS DE MILO.”, in The New York Times‎^[5], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 December 2025:

     Of all the classic Venuses known to us in modern times, this Venus of Milo is certainly the most popular.

   • 1958, Edgar Wind, “Sacred and Profane Love”, in Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 126:

     To call either or both of them by the name of Venus seems to me too positive; for although the theory of love which they embody was unquestionably associated with the two Venuses in Plato, ‘one draped, the other nude’, it is important to observe that, in contradistinction to Botticelli and Mantegna, Titian endowed the figures with attributes and characters which transcend the mythological idiom.

   • a. 1964, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Belphoebe, Amoret, and the Garden of Adonis”, in Alastair Fowler, editor, Spenser’s Image of Life, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, section 3, page 51:

     Now from Ficino’s In Platonis Convivium we learn that for the Neoplatonic philosopher there are two Veneres, not one. The first of these ‘twin Veneres’ is the Venus coelestis, born of Coelus alone, without a mother—since mater interpreted philosophically implies materia, and she is altogether immaterial.

   • 2014 January 30, Roberta Smith, “The Mythic and Heroic, Just Inches Tall […]”, in The New York Times‎^[6], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 January 2014:

     Portable bronze statuettes began to proliferate in mid-15th-century Italy as antique medals, […] With their emphasis on mythological power struggles and sex — Hercules crushing Antaeus was big, as were upright or reclining Venuses and nymphs — the statuettes were also status symbols.

5. A female given name.
   • 2022 November 1, Hilarie M. Sheets, “Behind 3 Champions’ Smithsonian Portraits”, in The New York Times‎^[7], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 November 2022:

     A mirrored [Venus] Williams, shown from behind and in profile, wears a tennis skirt made of raffia and the Wimbledon trophy dish refashioned as a collared chestplate apropos for a warrior superhero. […] Pruitt sees “a fertile space of reflection” between his two Venuses. “My hope,” he said, “is that the duality of the portrait gives us this sense of a person looking back at themselves, considering where they came from and where they’re going.”

• planets of the Solar System: Mercury · Venus · Earth · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune ^[edit]

Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text)
Star	Sun
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Moon	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymede Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

Venus (countable and uncountable, plural Venuses or Veneres)

1. (uncountable, poetic, otherwise obsolete) Sexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] 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.

2. (uncountable, obsolete, alchemy and chemistry) Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).
   • 1807, A New and Complete Encyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Vol III‎^[8], 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^[9], 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, because 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^[10]:

     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).

4. (countable, art) Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.
   • 1888 May 16, “They Love Americans […]”, in W. H. Canon, editor, Northern Wisconsin News, volume 10, number 19, Merrill, Wis., page [7], column 1:

     Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arched like rainbows, and Cinderellan in size.

6. (countable) 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.

• “Venus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• nevus

From Dutch Venus.

• Hyphenation: Ve‧nus

Venus

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

• planets of the Solar System: planete van die Sonnestelsel: Mercurius · Venus · Aarde · Mars · Jupiter · Saturnus · Uranus · Neptunus ^[edit]

First attested in the 20th century. Borrowed from French Vénus. Doublet of Venerë.

• IPA^(key): /veˈnus/
• Rhymes: -us

Venus m (definite Venusi)

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

   Synonym: Venerë

• FMGJSH (2026), “Venús,~i”
• Leka & Simoni (1995), page 888b: “Vènere” → “Venus”

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

Venus f

2. Venus (planet)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.nus]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvɛ.nus]

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Venus f

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

• planets of the Solar System: planetes del sistema solar: Mercuri · Venus · Terra · Mart · Júpiter · Saturn · Urà · Neptú ^[edit]

From English Venus, from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /biːn̪ʊs/

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

From Latin Venus.

Venus (genitive Venus')

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

• planets of the Solar System: planeter i solsystemet: Merkur · Venus · Jorden~jorden · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

Borrowed from Latin Venus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveː.nʏs/

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Venus f

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

Venus

2. Venus (Roman goddess)

Venus f

1. Venus (planet)

Solar System in Faroese · Sólskipanin (layout · text)
Star	Sólin
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkur	Venus	Jørðin	Mars	[Term?]	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptun	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Mánin	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymedes Callisto	[Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] Titan [Term?]	[Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?]	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

From Latin Venus.

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

Venus

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

Solar System in Finnish · Aurinkokunta (layout · text)
Star	Aurinko
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkurius	Venus	Maa (Tellus)	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturnus	Uranus	Neptunus	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Kuu	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymedes Kallisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Japetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Kharon	Dysnomia

• suven

Venus f

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

• planets of the Solar System: planetas do sistema solar: Mercurio · Venus · Terra · Marte · Xúpiter · Saturno · Urano · Neptuno ^[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin Venus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveːnʊs/
• (rustic) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.nʊs/

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• Hyphenation: Ve‧nus

Venus f (proper noun, genitive Venus)

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

(goddess):

• Venusmuschel

(planet):

• Venusoberfläche

Venus f (genitive Venus, no plural)

1. (figuratively) very beautiful woman

• planets of the Solar System: Planeten des Sonnensystems: Merkur · Venus · Erde · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

• “Venus”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[11] (in German)
• “Venus (Planet, Schönheit)” in Duden online
• “Venus (römische Göttin)” in Duden online

Borrowed from Latin Venus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛːnʏs/
• Rhymes: -ɛːnʏs

Venus f (proper noun, genitive singular Venusar)

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

Solar System in Icelandic · Sólkerfið (layout · text)
Star	Sólin
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkúr	Venus	Jörðin	Mars	Seres	Júpíter	Satúrnus	Úranus	Neptúnus	Plútó	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Tunglið	Fóbos Deimos	—	Íó Evrópa Ganýmedes Kallistó	Mímas Enkeladus Teþis Díóne Rea Títan Japetus	Míranda Aríel Úmbríel Títanía Óberon	Tríton	Karon	Dysnómía

From Dutch Venus, from Latin Venus.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈvenus/ [ˈfe.nʊs]
• Rhymes: -enus
• Syllabification: Ve‧nus

Venus

1. Venus
   1. (astronomy) the second planet in the Solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♀

      Synonym: Zohrah (rare)

   3. (Roman mythology) the Roman goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality

• (astronomy, rare): Zohrah

Solar System in Indonesian · Tata Surya (layout · text)
Star	Matahari
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkurius	Venus	Bumi	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturnus	Uranus	Neptunus	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Bulan	Fobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganimede Kalisto	Mimas Enseladus Tetis Dione Rea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Kharon	Disnomia

• Venus on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id
• “Venus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.nus]

Venus f (genitive Veneris); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) Venus (goddess of love and beauty)
   • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 732:

     sine Cerere et Līberō frīget Venus

     without Ceres and Liber, Venus freezes
     (without food and wine, love doesn't thrive)

2. (astronomy) Venus (planet)

   Synonyms: Lūcifer, vesper

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. (dice games) the best throw at the dice

   Antonyms: canīcula, canis

   Coordinate terms: vulturius, basilicus; bīniō, terniō, quaterniō, quīniō, sēniō

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume Aug.71:

     Talis enim iactatis, ut quisque canem aut senionem miserat, in singulos talos singulos denarios in medium conferebat, quos tollebat uniuersos, qui Venerem iecerat

     When the tali (an oblong dice) would be thrown, those who had gotten an ace or a six had to place a denarius in the middle of the table for each dice thrown, the one that would achieve in getting a Venus won it all.

6. See venus.

The Old Latin form Venerus shows the rare genitive singular ending -us instead of the standard Classical Latin ending -is. This unique ending is poorly attested and largely exclusive to religious or legal documents.

Third-declension noun.

• see: venus

• → French: Vénus
• → Italian: Venere
• →? Messapic: 𐌅𐌄𐌍𐌀𐌔
• → Middle English: Venus
• → Portuguese: Vénus / Vênus
• Sicilian: Vènniri
• → Spanish: Venus

• “Venus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Coleman, Robert (1990), “Dialectal Variation in Republican Latin, with Special Reference to Praenestine”, in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society‎^[12], number 36 (216) (quotation in English; overall work in English), →ISSN, page 8

From Latin Venus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈveːnus/^[2]

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

• venerien

• English: Venus

• venus

Borrowed from Norwegian Venus.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈvenuːs/

Venus

2. 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

• planets of the Solar System: Merkur · Venus · Eana · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[13], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Venus

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

• planets of the Solar System: planeter, planetar: Merkur · Venus · jorda · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

Borrowed from French Vénus, from Latin Venus.

Venus f

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

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

Venus f

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

• planets of the Solar System: planetas del sistema solar: Mercurio · Venus · Tierra · Marte · Júpiter · Saturno · Urano · Neptuno ^[edit]
• Venus on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• IPA^(key): /ˈveːnɵs/

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Venus c (genitive Venus)

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

• planets of the Solar System: planeter i solsystemet: Merkurius · Venus · jorden · Mars · Jupiter · Saturnus · Uranus · Neptunus ^[edit]

• uvens

Borrowed from English Venus, from Latin Venus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈvinus/ [ˈviː.n̪ʊs]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈbinus/ [ˈbiː.n̪ʊs]
• Rhymes: -inus
• Syllabification: Ve‧nus

Venus (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜈᜓᜐ᜔)

1. a female given name from English