Venetian to rise with a greeting (7)
I believe the answer is:
othello
'venetian' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'to rise with a greeting' is the wordplay.
'rise' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a greeting' becomes 'hello' (hello is a kind of greeting).
'to' written backwards gives 'ot'.
'ot'+'hello'='OTHELLO'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for othello that I've seen before include "Shakespearean play" , "Shakespeare's tragic Moor of Venice" , "game with counters" , "Shakespeare's general" , "product of 12 [SHAKESPEARE] , inspiring 6 [VERDI]" .)