English
venous
Venous comes from Latin vēnōsus ‘full of veins, veiny’, and goes back to vēna ‘a blood vessel, vein’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēna‘a blood vessel, vein’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēnōsus‘full of veins, veiny’
- Englishtodayvenous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēna‘a blood vessel, vein’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēnōsus‘full of veins, veiny’
- Englishtodayvenous
The story
Morphologically vein + -ous, which is a borrowing from Latin vēnōsus (‘full of veins, veiny’), from vēna (‘a blood vessel, vein’) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring, transport’
way, always, via, vehicle, wave, reveal, halfway, weigh, wagon, wee, vector, vogue, wedge, veil, headway, wag, wonky, eunuch, vex, wey, waw, wain, invective, velar, venal, 39 more
through Latin vēna ‘a blood vessel, vein’
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to veins.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vēna / venous