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Latin
Etymology
From vēna (“a blood vessel, vein”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vēnōsus (feminine vēnōsa, neuter vēnōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (literal) full of veins, veiny, venous
- (figurative) dry, meagre
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Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “venosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- venosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.