vento

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See also: Vento, vénto, and ventó

Catalan

Verb

vento

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ventar

Esperanto

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Etymology

From French vent and Italian vento, both from Latin ventus.

Pronunciation

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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

Galician

Vento ("wind")

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese vento, from Latin ventus.

Noun

vento m (plural ventos)

  1. wind (movement of air)
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

Verb

vento

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ventar

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto vento, from Latin ventus.

Noun

vento (plural venti)

  1. (weather) wind

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Noun

vento m

  1. wind

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

vento m (plural venti)

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

See also

Latin

Etymology 1

Frequentative of veniō (I come).

Pronunciation

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to be wont to come, come often, keep coming, resort
Conjugation
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See ventus

Pronunciation

Noun

ventō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of ventus (wind)

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

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ventus.

Pronunciation

Noun

vento m (plural ventos)

  1. wind

Descendants

  • Fala: ventu
  • Galician: vento
  • Portuguese: vento (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -ẽtu
  • Hyphenation: ven‧to

Etymology 1

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

Noun

vento m (plural ventos)

  1. wind (moving air)
  2. (less common) air (gases of the atmosphere)
    Synonym: ar
  3. (Brazil, figurative) nothingness; nothing (the lack of something)
    Synonym: nada
    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 found nothing.
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vento

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ventar

Further reading

Venetan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

vento m (plural venti)

  1. wind

References