venter

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See also: Venter

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

Noun[edit]

venter (plural venters)

  1. A woman with offspring.
  2. (biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:
    1. (zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod.
    2. (botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.
  3. A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From vent +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

venter (plural venters)

  1. One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems.
    • 2006, David Laton, Developing Positive Workplace Skills and Attitudes, →ISBN, page 72:
      Venters suffer interpersonally as others avoid their outburst, they become isolated and alone which may result in more venting.

Etymology 3[edit]

Cognate with Dutch venter (“vendor, peddler”).

Noun[edit]

venter (plural venters)

  1. (obsolete) A vendor.

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Danish[edit]

Verb[edit]

venter

  1. present of vente

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From venten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

venter m (plural venters, diminutive ventertje n)

  1. A vendor, peddler, door-to-door salesman

Derived terms[edit]

vendor types, mainly by product

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From vent (“wind”) +‎ -er, from Latin ventus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

venter (impersonal)

  1. (impersonal, weather) to be windy, to blow

Conjugation[edit]

This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of venter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple venter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple ventant
/vɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle venté
/vɑ̃.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present — — vente
/vɑ̃t/ 		— — —
imperfect — — ventait
/vɑ̃.tɛ/ 		— — —
past historic2 — — venta
/vɑ̃.ta/ 		— — —
future — — ventera
/vɑ̃.tʁa/ 		— — —
conditional — — venterait
/vɑ̃.tʁɛ/ 		— — —
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present — — vente
/vɑ̃t/ 		— — —
imperfect2 — — ventât
/vɑ̃.ta/ 		— — —
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — — — — — —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Latin[edit]

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also German Wanst (“belly, paunch”), Old High German wanast, Sanskrit वस्ति (vasti, “bladder”), Latin vēsīca (“bladder”)[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

venter m (genitive ventris); third declension

  1. (literal)
    1. the belly
      Synonyms: alvus, abdōmen
    2. a paunch, maw, conveying the accessory idea of greediness or gormandizing
    3. (anatomy) the stomach
    4. the body, trunk
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. the womb
      1. an unborn offspring, especially a son
    2. the bowels, entrails
    3. a swelling, protuberance
  3. (figurative)
    1. sensual lust
    2. gluttony
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Inflection[edit]

  • Venter has a shaky history, and some sources list it as a consonant stem, but more commonly (e.g. Allen & Greenough) it is listed as an i-stem.

Third-declension noun (i-stem or parisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative venter ventrēs
Genitive ventris ventrium
ventrum
Dative ventrī ventribus
Accusative ventrem ventrēs
ventrīs
Ablative ventre ventribus
Vocative venter ventrēs

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References[edit]

  • “venter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “venter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • venter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be the slave of one's appetite: ventri deditum esse
  1. ^ “ventre” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
  2. ^ Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “bèntre”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Lombard[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin venter. Akin to Italian ventre, French ventre etc.

Noun[edit]

venter

  1. belly

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Verb[edit]

venter

  1. present of vente
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