ventar

Galician

Etymology

14th century. From vento (“wind”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈtaɾ/

Verb

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to blow (the wind)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 519:

     Tanto que fuy manãa, fezo o sol muy claro et muy bõo, et despois cõmeçou d'escureçer et de chouer et uentar muyto, et todos andauã mollados et anoiados

     As soon as it dawned it was sunny and clear, but then it darkened and it rained and the wind blew strongly, and everyone was wet and annoyed

   Synonyms: ventear, zafrear

2. (transitive) to sniff
   • c1840, Antonio María de la Iglesia (ed.), El idioma Gallego, su antigüedad y vida, A Coruña: Latorre y Martínez Edts., page 180:

     por eso andades pillando votos a bandadas como cando preada ventan os corvos; Por eso eres ti do banco donde se xuntan os votos pra trocar as papeletas e facer outros embrollos

     that's the reason behind you catching votes at large as when the crows sniff a carcass; because of this, you are of the bench where the ballots are reunited to change the papers and to do other wrongs

3. (transitive) to have a feeling; to find out; to suspect
   • c1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: IEOPF, page 873:

     Mays os mouros ouuerõ a uentar a caua que elles llj faziã

     But the Moors eventually discovered the mine that they were building [under the Moor's castle]

   Synonyms: barruntar, presentir, sospeitar

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uentar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “ventar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Ido

Etymology

From vento +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /venˈtar/

Verb

ventar (present tense ventas, past tense ventis, future tense ventos, imperative ventez, conditional ventus)

1. (intransitive) to blow, be windy

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ventar

		present		past		future
infinitive		ventar		ventir		ventor
tense		ventas		ventis		ventos
conditional		ventus
imperative		ventez
adjective active participle		ventanta		ventinta		ventonta
adverbial active participle		ventante		ventinte		ventonte
nominal active participle	singular	ventanto		ventinto		ventonto
	plural	ventanti		ventinti		ventonti

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ventar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of venta

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Portuguese

Etymology

14th century. From vento (“wind”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.ˈta(ɾ)/
• Hyphenation: ven‧tar

Verb

1. (intransitive, impersonal, of wind) to blow

Related terms

• ventania

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Spanish

Etymology

From viento +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈtaɾ/ [bẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

Verb

1. (intransitive) to blow
2. (transitive) to sniff, scent