late Old English, from Latin Venus (plural veneres), in ancient Roman mythology, the goddess of beauty and love, especially sensual love, from venus "love, sexual desire; loveliness, beauty, charm; a beloved object," from PIE root *wen- (1) "to strive after, wish, desire" (cognates: Sanskrit veti "follows after," vanas- "desire," vanati "desires, loves, wins;" Avestan vanaiti "he wishes, is victorious," vayeiti "hunts;" Lithuanian veju "to hunt, pursue;" Old Church Slavonic voji "warrior;" Old English wat "hunting," wynn "joy," wunian "to dwell," wenian "to accustom, train, wean," wyscan "to wish;" Old Norse veier "chase, hunting, fishing"). Applied by the Romans to Greek Aphrodite, Egyptian Hathor, etc.
Applied in English to any beautiful, attractive woman by 1570s. As the name of the most brilliant planet from late 13c., from this sense in Latin (Old English called it morgensteorra and ?fensteorra). The venus fly-trap (Dion?a muscipula) was discovered 1760 by Gov. Arthur Dobbs in North Carolina and description sent to Collinson in England. The Central Atlantic Coast Algonquian name for the plant, /titipiwitshik/, yielded regional American English tippity wichity.
雙語例句
1. Venus, the Sun and Earth all moved into line.
金星、太陽和地球都到了一條直線上。
來自柯林斯例句
2. a marble sculpture of Venus
維納斯的大理石雕像
來自《權威詞典》
3. Venus is of the same size as Earth.
金星跟地球差不多一樣大.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Venus was a goddess worshiped by the Romans.
維納斯是羅馬人所崇拜的女神.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
5. On Wednesday, Anadarko announced positive results from the Venus well off the coast of Sierra Leone.