ventana
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /benˈtana/, [bẽn̪ˈt̪a.na]
Noun
ventana f (plural ventanes)
- window
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanish ventana.
Noun
ventana
- window
Related terms
- ventanilla
- viento
Chibcha
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Spanish ventana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /βentana/
Noun
ventana
- Alternative form of bentana
References
- Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish ventana.
Noun
ventana
- window
Ladino
Noun
ventana f (Latin spelling)
- window
Leonese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /benˈtana/
Noun
ventana f (plural ventanas)
- window
References
- AEDLL
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish ventana, from Latin ventus. Doublet of ventã.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vẽˈtɐ̃.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vẽˈtɐ.na/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vẽˈtɐ.nɐ/
- Hyphenation: ven‧ta‧na
Noun
ventana f (plural ventanas)
- (archaic) window
- Synonym: janela
- handheld fan
- Synonym: leque
- snooker pocket
- Synonym: ventanilha
- (Brazil) troublemaker
- Synonyms: desordeiro, mau, turbulento.
Adjective
ventana m or f (plural ventanas)
- (Brazil) troublemaker
- Synonyms: desordeiro, mau, turbulento.
References
- “ventana” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “ventana” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ventāna, from Latin ventus (“wind”). Compare Asturian ventana, Extremaduran ventana, Galician ventá, Leonese ventana, Mirandese bentana, Portuguese ventã.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /benˈtana/ [bẽn̪ˈt̪a.na]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: ven‧ta‧na
Noun
ventana f (plural ventanas)
- window (opening for light and air)
- Synonyms: fenestra, finiestra, hiniestra
- window frame
- (computing) window (area on a computer screen)
- nostril
- small gap or opening; forest clearing
Derived terms
(diminutive ventanilla or ventanita)
- el verbo echar echa la hache por la ventana
- echar la casa por la ventana; tirar la casa por la ventana
- ventana emergente
- ventanal
Descendants
- Chavacano: ventana
- → Guaraní: ovetã
- Papiamentu: bentana
- → Bikol Central: bintana
- → Cebuano: bintana, bentana
- → Hiligaynon: bintana
- → Tagalog: bintana
Further reading
- “ventana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014