vento

vento

See also: Vento, vénto, and ventó

Esperanto

Etymology

From French vent and Italian vento, both from Latin ventus. Compare Portuguese vento, Spanish viento, Romanian vânt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvento]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: ven‧to

Noun

vento (accusative singular venton, plural ventoj, accusative plural ventojn)

1. (weather) wind

   La vento forte blovis tra la arbaro hieraŭ.

   The wind blew strongly through the forest yesterday.

Derived terms

• suna vento
• sunvento
• ventanima
• ventego
• ventmuelejo
• ventoturbino
• ventumi

 

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Galician

Vento ("wind")

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vento, from Latin ventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbento̝/, (dialectal) /ˈbɛnto̝/

Noun

vento m (plural ventos)

1. wind (movement of air)

Derived terms

• ventar
• ventear
• Ventosa
• Ventosela
• ventoselo
• ventoso
• vento solar
• vento tolo

 

Related terms

• vendaval

References

• “vento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vento” 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 Esperanto vento, from Latin ventus.

Noun

vento (plural venti)

1. (weather) wind

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Noun

vento m

1. wind

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ventus (“wind”), from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts, from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.to/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: vèn‧to

Noun

vento m (plural venti)

1. wind (movement of air caused by differences in atmospheric pressure)

Related terms

• mulino a vento
• rosa dei venti
• sventare
• ventaglio
• ventata
• venticello
• ventilare
• ventola
• ventosa
• ventoso
• vento solare
• vento stellare

 

See also

• meteorologia

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Latin

Etymology 1

Frequentative of veniō (“I come”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯en.toː/, [ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈven.to/, [ˈvɛn̪t̪o]

Verb

ventō (present infinitive ventāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

1. (intransitive) I am wont to come, come often, keep coming, resort.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ventō (first conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	ventō	ventās	ventat	ventāmus	ventātis	ventant
	imperfect	ventābam	ventābās	ventābat	ventābāmus	ventābātis	ventābant
	future	ventābō	ventābis	ventābit	ventābimus	ventābitis	ventābunt
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	ventem	ventēs	ventet	ventēmus	ventētis	ventent
	imperfect	ventārem	ventārēs	ventāret	ventārēmus	ventārētis	ventārent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	ventā	—	—	ventāte	—
	future	—	ventātō	ventātō	—	ventātōte	ventantō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		ventāre	—	—	—	—	—
participles		ventāns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		ventandī	ventandō	ventandum	ventandō	—	—

Synonyms

• (I am wont to come): ventitō

Related terms

• adveniō
• adventō
• antēveniō
• circumveniō
• contraveniō
• conveniō
• conventō
• dēveniō
• ēveniō
• interveniō
• inveniō
• obveniō
• perveniō
• praeveniō
• prōveniō
• reveniō
• subveniō
• subventō
• superveniō
• transveniō
• veniō
• ventiō
• ventitō

 

Etymology 2

See ventus

Noun

ventō

1. dative/ablative singular of ventus

References

• “vento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
    

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese vento, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tu/

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: ven‧to

Noun

vento m (plural ventos)

1. wind (moving air)
2. (less common) air (gases of the atmosphere)
3. (Brazil, figurative) nothingness; nothing (the lack of something)

   Coloquei a mão no bolso para pegar a carteira, mas só encontrei vento.

   I put my hand in my pocket to get my wallet, but I only found fresh air.

Synonyms

• (air): ar
• (nothing): nada

Derived terms

• cata-vento

Related terms

• vendaval
• ventã
• ventar
• ventilar

 

Further reading

• “vento” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.