venosus

== Latin == === Etymology === From vēna (“a blood vessel, vein”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [weːˈnoː.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [veˈnɔː.s̬us] === Adjective === vēnōsus (feminine vēnōsa, neuter vēnōsum); first/second-declension adjective (literal) full of veins, veiny, venous (figurative) dry, meagre ==== 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.