ventoso

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ventoso, from Latin ventōsus, equivalent to vento (“wind”) +‎ -oso (“-y, -ous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [benˈtosʊ]

Adjective

ventoso (feminine ventosa, masculine plural ventosos, feminine plural ventosas)

1. windy
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 405:

     En outro día de manãa, começou o día escuro et ventoso, et neuaua

     Next day morning the day began dark and windy, and it was snowing

Related terms

• ventar
• vento

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ventoso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “ventoso”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ventoso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ventoso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /venˈto.zo/, (traditional) /venˈto.so/
• Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
• Hyphenation: ven‧tó‧so

Etymology 1

From Latin ventōsus. By surface analysis, vento (“wind”) +‎ -oso (“-y, -ous”). Cognate with Piedmontese ventus.

Adjective

ventoso (feminine ventosa, masculine plural ventosi, feminine plural ventose)

1. (weather) windy, breezy
2. conceited, inflated

Derived terms

• ventosa
• ventosamente
• ventosità

Related terms

• vento

Etymology 2

Taken from Latin ventōsus (“windy”), as a calque of French ventôse.

Noun

ventoso m (plural ventosi)

1. (historical) Ventôse (the sixth month of the French Republican Calendar)

See also

• (French Republican Calendar months) mesi del calendario rivoluzionario francese; vendemmiaio, brumaio, frimaio, nevoso, piovoso, ventoso, germinale, fiorile, pratile, messidoro, termidoro, fruttidoro ^{(Category: it:Months)}

Anagrams

• vestono

Latin

Adjective

ventōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ventōsus

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ventōsus. By surface analysis, vento (“wind”) +‎ -oso (“-ous”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vẽˈto.zu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vẽˈto.zu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vẽˈto.zo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vẽˈto.zu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vẽˈto.zu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bẽˈto.zu/

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: ven‧to‧so

Adjective

ventoso (feminine ventosa, masculine plural ventosos, feminine plural ventosas, metaphonic)

1. windy

Derived terms

• desventoso

Noun

ventoso m (uncountable, metaphonic)

1. Ventôse

Further reading

• “ventoso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ventōsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈtoso/ [bẽn̪ˈt̪o.so]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: ven‧to‧so

Adjective

ventoso (feminine ventosa, masculine plural ventosos, feminine plural ventosas)

1. (weather) windy, breezy

Noun

ventoso m (plural ventosos)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) fart

   Synonym: pedo

Derived terms

• ventosamente

Related terms

• viento

Further reading

• “ventoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “ventoso”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010