ventus

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈventus/

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ventus

1. conditional of ventar

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯en.tus/, [ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈven.tus/, [ˈvɛn̪t̪us]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognate and synonymous with English wind, Sanskrit वात (vā́ta), Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀 (vāta), Ancient Greek ἀείς (aeís) . See also Latin vannus.

Noun

ventus m (genitive ventī); second declension

2. a wind

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ventus	ventī
Genitive	ventī	ventōrum
Dative	ventō	ventīs
Accusative	ventum	ventōs
Ablative	ventō	ventīs
Vocative	vente	ventī

Derived terms

• ventulus
• ventōsus

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: biento
• Aromanian: vimtu
• Asturian: vientu, ventana (via *ventana)
• Catalan: vent
• Dalmatian: viant
• Friulian: vint
• Istriot: vento
• Italian: vento
• Mirandese: biento, bentana (via *ventana)
• Occitan: vent
• Old French: vent, vant
  • Bourguignon: vant
  • → English: vent
  • French: vent
  • Norman: vent
  • Walloon: vint
• Old Galician-Portuguese: vento, ventãa (via *ventana)
  • Galician: vento, venta, ventá (via *ventana)
  • Portuguese: vento, venta, ventã (via *ventana)
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: bentu
    • Kabuverdianu: bentu
• Papiamentu: bientu
• Piedmontese: vent
• Romanian: vânt
• Romansch: vent
• Sardinian: bentu, ventu, bentana (via *ventana)
• Sicilian: ventu
• Spanish: viento, ventana (via *ventana)
• Venetian: vènt, vento

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *gʷentus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷém-tu-s, from *gʷem-.

Noun

ventus m (genitive ventūs); fourth declension

2. arrival

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ventus	ventūs
Genitive	ventūs	ventuum
Dative	ventuī	ventibus
Accusative	ventum	ventūs
Ablative	ventū	ventibus
Vocative	ventus	ventūs

References

• “ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ventus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ventus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
    
  • the wind is falling: ventus remittit (opp. increbrescit)
    
  • the wind dies down, ceases: ventus cadit, cessat
    
  • to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
    
  • the wind is turning to the south-west: ventus se vertit in Africum
    
  • the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
    
  • with the wind against one: ventis reflantibus (Tusc. 1. 49)
    
  • (ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
    
• “ventus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin ventōsus.

Adjective

ventus

1. windy