ventoso

ventoso

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [benˈtosʊ]

Adjective

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

1. windy
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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

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

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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

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

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Latin

Adjective

ventōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ventōsus

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ventōsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vẽˈto.zu/

• 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

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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

Derived terms

• ventosamente

Related terms

• viento

Further reading

• “ventoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014