Venus
Middle English
/ˈvɛːnus/
proper noun
Definitions
- The Roman goddess governing love and sexuality; Venus.
- The planet closely associated with the evening: Venus.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Venus derived from Proto-Italic *wenos (love).
Origin
Proto-Italic
*wenos
Gloss
love
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
愛, 恋
Emoji
❤️ 🏩 👨❤️👨 👩❤️👨 👩❤️👩 👰♀️ 💋 💌 💑 💒 💓 💕 💖 💗 💘 💝 😍 😘 😚 😻 🤟 🤰 🤱 🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Venus English
- Venusian English
- Venuslike English
- protoVenus English
- venusquake English
- Venerivagus Latin
- Venus Latin
- conchula Latin
- Venus German
- Venere Italian
- Vénus French
- vénérien French
- *wenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wénh₁-os Proto-Indo-European
- ビーナス Japanese
- ヴィーナス Japanese
- venus Middle English
- Venus Icelandic
- Venus Cebuano
- Venus Tagalog
- ונוס Hebrew (modern)
- 베누스 Korean
- *wenos Proto-Italic
- Biinis Navajo, Navaho