Surname Etymology and Meaning of VENUS
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| (origin: Lat.) Coming to all, as Cicero derives it, from veniendo. In Greek, Venus was called Aphrodite, some say from the foam of the sea whence she sprung, but Euripides says from Aphrosune, mad folly. Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857). |
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