ventar

Catalan

Etymology

From vent +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

ventar (first-person singular present vento, first-person singular preterite ventí, past participle ventat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to be windy

   Synonym: ventejar

2. (transitive) to cast to the wind, to scatter
3. (agriculture, transitive) to winnow
4. (transitive) to fan

   Synonym: ventallar

5. (transitive) to move back and forth, to wave, to wag

   Synonym: brandar

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ventador
• ventafocs
• ventall

Further reading

• “ventar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventar (attested since circa 1300 in Galician texts).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈtaɾ/

Verb

ventar (first-person singular present vento, first-person singular preterite ventei, past participle ventado)

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to blow (the wind)

   Synonyms: ventear, zafrear

2. (transitive) to sniff
   • c. 1840, Antonio María de la Iglesia, editor, El idioma Gallego, su antigüedad y vida, A Coruña: Latorre y Martínez Edts, page 180:

     por eso andades pillando votos a bandadas como cando preada ventan os corvos; Por eso eres ti do banco donde se xuntan os votos pra trocar as papeletas e facer outros embrollos

     that's the reason behind you catching votes at large as when the crows sniff a carcass; because of this, you are of the bench where the ballots are reunited to change the papers and to do other wrongs

3. (transitive) to have a feeling; to find out; to suspect

   Synonyms: barruntar, presentir, sospeitar

   • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso:

     Mais non podès, porque ò lume,
     por moito que se atafegue,
     logo ò venta quen se achegue,
     anque del non vexa fume

     But thou can't, because fire,
     no matter how much you suffocate it,
     it is soon perceived by someone who comes near,
     even it they don't see their smoke

Conjugation

References

• “ventar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “uentar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ventar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ventar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “ventar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ventar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “ventar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

From vento +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /venˈtar/

Verb

ventar (present tense ventas, past tense ventis, future tense ventos, imperative ventez, conditional ventus)

1. (intransitive) to blow, be windy

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ventar

		present		past		future
infinitive		ventar		ventir		ventor
tense		ventas		ventis		ventos
conditional		ventus
imperative		ventez
adjective active participle		ventanta		ventinta		ventonta
adverbial active participle		ventante		ventinte		ventonte
nominal active participle	singular	ventanto		ventinto		ventonto
	plural	ventanti		ventinti		ventonti

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ventar

1. present of venta

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

vento +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βẽnˈtaɾ/, /βẽˈtaɾ/

Verb

ventar

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to blow (the wind)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 519:

     Tanto que fuy manãa, fezo o sol muy claro et muy bõo, et despois cõmeçou d'escureçer et de chouer et uentar muyto, et todos andauã mollados et anoiados

     As soon as it dawned it was sunny and clear, but then it darkened and it rained and the wind blew strongly, and everyone was wet and annoyed

2. (transitive) to have a feeling; to find out; to suspect

   Synonyms: barruntar, presentir, sospeitar

   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: IEOPF, page 873:

     Mays os mouros ouuerõ a uentar a caua que elles llj faziã

     But the Moors eventually discovered the mine that they were digging

Conjugation

Descendants

• Galician: ventar
• Portuguese: ventar

Further reading

• “ventar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.

Portuguese

Etymology

14th century. From vento (“wind”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ven‧tar

Verb

ventar (impersonal, third-person singular present venta, third-person singular preterite ventou, past participle ventado)

1. (intransitive, impersonal, of wind) to blow

Conjugation

Related terms

• ventania

Spanish

Etymology

From viento +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ven‧tar

Verb

ventar (first-person singular present viento, first-person singular preterite venté, past participle ventado)

1. (intransitive) to blow
2. (transitive) to sniff, scent

Conjugation

Further reading

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