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Veneri

Veneri is a Latin form of Venus, meaning “Venus, goddess of love and beauty; love, charm”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 92 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.27: … iam, statim Messana litteras dedit, Dionem evocavit, calumniatores ex sinu suo adposuit qui illam hereditatem Veneri Erycinae commissam esse dicerent; hac de re ostendit se ipsum cogniturum.

Plautus, Rudens 1.5.283: egomét meam vix vitám colo; Venerí cibo meo sérvio.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 22.9.10: et Ioui ludos magnos et aedes Ueneri Erycinae ac Menti uouendas esse, et supplicationem lectisterniumque habendum, et uer sacrum uouendum si bellatum prospere esset resque publica in eodem quo ante bellum fuisset statu permansisset.

All forms of Venus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.