Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

In Gnostic cosmology, the 7 letters spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

The Norse name for the planet Venus was Friggjarstjarna ' Frigg's star '.

The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name " William Shakespeare ", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period.

The first form of elemental phosphorus to be produced ( white phosphorus, in 1669 ) emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygen – hence its name given from Greek mythology, meaning " light-bearer " ( Latin Lucifer ), referring to the " Morning Star ", the planet Venus.

The Trojan origins of Rome became particularly important in the propaganda of Julius Caesar, whose family claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas's son Iulus ( hence the Latin gens name Iulius ), and during the reign of Augustus ; see for instance the Tabulae Iliacae and the " Troy Game " presented frequently by the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

* Venus Flytrap ( WKRP in Cincinnati ), on-air name of a disc jockey in the television comedy WKRP in Cincinnati

* Kasuga, the female ninja in the Uesugi clan in Devil Kings whose Devil Kings ' name is Venus

Venus embodies sex, beauty, enticement, seduction and persuasive female charm among the community of immortal gods ; in Latin orthography, her name is indistinguishable from the Latin noun venus (" sexual love " and " sexual desire "), from which it derives.

An inscription, indeed, cut in the rock near San Felice, speaks about this part of the (" promontory of Venus "; the only case of the use of this name ) as belonging to the city of Circei.

Related work included the characterization of materials for a Venus balloon envelope, and two balloon flights in 1996 to test instrument payloads under the name BARBE, for " Balloon Assisted Radiation Budget Equipment ".

The name " d ' Alembert " was proposed by Johann Heinrich Lambert for a suspected ( but non-existent ) moon of Venus.

The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the " day of Frigg ", a result of an old convention equivocating the Old English goddess Frige with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures.

In most of the Indian languages, Friday is Shukravar ( or a derived variation of Sukravar ), named for Shukra, the Sanskrit name of the planet Venus.

It has also been suggested that the λ of arose from an original ν, and thus the etymology of the name is connected with the root of Venus.

The Venera ( Cyrillic: Венера ) series probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus, Venera being the Russian name for Venus.

Sif has inspired the name of volcano on the planet Venus ( Sif Mons ).

* Morning star is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears in the east before sunrise ( as though heralding the coming of the morning ).

The name means originating from Hesperus, the evening star Venus, equivalent to vesper.

In 1997, the International Astronomical Union approved the name Nyx for a mons ( mountain / peak ) feature on the planet Venus.

In 1975 real-world author Philip José Farmer wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he published under the name Kilgore Trout.

Lucifer was the name used by the Romans for the Morning star and the goddess Venus.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

The name “ Dachau ” originated in the Celtic Dahauua, which roughly translates to “ loamy meadow ” and also alludes to the loamy soil of the surrounding hills.

( The name of his TV role alludes to Peter Quince, a Shakespeare character who leads a company of bad actors in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The name of Lamorna's pub, The Wink, alludes to smuggling, ' the wink ' being a signal that contraband could be obtained.

The Cozy Cone Motel design is the Wigwam Motel on U. S. Route 66 in Arizona with the neon " 100 % Refrigerated Air " slogan of Tucumcari, New Mexico's Blue Swallow Motel ; the Wheel Well Motel's name alludes to the restored stone-cabin Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri.

The passion of Osiris was reflected in his name ' Wenennefer " (" the one who continues to be perfect "), which also alludes to his post mortem power.

It has also been suggested that the name of the temple alludes to the virgins ( parthenoi ), whose supreme sacrifice guaranteed the safety of the city.

Although it is believed that the name " Tekka ", meaning ' red hot iron ', alludes to the color of the tuna flesh or salmon flesh, it actually originated as a quick snack to eat in gambling dens called " Tekkaba " (), much like the sandwich.

The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat, it alludes to the city's name which translates literally as " boat ".

It is to these footprints that the official name of the church alludes: palmis refers to the soles of Jesus ' feet.

In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis in a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.

The name " cedar " has more recently ( since about 1700 ) been applied to many other trees ( such as Western redcedar ; in some cases the botanical name alludes to this usage, such as the genus Calocedrus ( meaning " beautiful cedar "), also known as Incense-cedar ).

However, the NGV was founded some 40 years before the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia, when Victoria was a self-governing British colony ; the name alludes to that period, when Victoria was a discrete political entity.

Its current name alludes to clusters of the fruit on the tree, which often appear similar to grapes.

The genus name is derived from the Greek word sparasso, meaning " to tear ", and alludes to the shape of the floral bracts.

* The town of Ilium alludes to the town of Troy, NY ( Ilium being the Latinized form of Troy's Greek name, Ἴλιον ).

His name in the Nahuatl language is often translated as " Smoking Mirror " and alludes to his connection to obsidian, the material from which mirrors were made in Mesoamerica and which was used for shamanic rituals.

Columbia County was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County and named for Columbia, a poetic name for the United States that alludes to Christopher Columbus.

The name Golders comes from a family named Godyere who lived in the area and Green alludes to the manorial waste the settlement was built on.

The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty (" All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again "), an allusion similar to that made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men, which describes the career of a fictional governor loosely based on Huey Long.

The fiesta takes its name from the tamale and alludes to the town's local notoriety for a spicier version of the Mississippi Delta style boiled tamale.

The most prominent and famous fairy is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's companion, whose name alludes to her profession as a " tinker " or fixer or pots and pans.

* A 2002 short story by Glen David Gold entitled " The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter " alludes to the myth and gives the name to the deceitful clown of the story, who cries " heedless crocodile tears.

The title alludes to the hidden and mysterious nature of its subject, as he used to sign his name as Hatzafun.