venter

See also: Venter

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.tə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Noun

venter (plural venters)

  1. A woman with offspring.
  2. (biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:
    1. (zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod.
    2. (botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.
  3. A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone.

Etymology 2

From vent + -er.

Noun

venter (plural venters)

  1. One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems.
    • 2006, David Laton, Developing Positive Workplace Skills and Attitudes, →ISBN, page 72:
      Venters suffer interpersonally as others avoid their outburst, they become isolated and alone which may result in more venting.

Etymology 3

Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Noun

venter (plural venters)

  1. (obsolete) A vendor.

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

venter

  1. present of vente

Dutch

Etymology

From venten + -er.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

venter m (plural venters, diminutive ventertje n)

  1. A vendor, peddler, door-to-door salesman

Derived terms

vendor types, mainly by product
  • bloemenventer m
  • dagbladventer m
  • fruitventer m
  • gelegenheidsventer m
  • groenteventer m
  • marktventer m
  • melkventer m
  • petroleumventer m
  • straatventer m
  • visventer m (obsolete spelling vischventer m)
  • ideeënventer m
  • potloodventer m
  • venterigge
  • ventersbond m
  • ventersgeroep n
  • ventersgroep
  • venterskar
  • venterskreet
  • venterskroeg
  • ventster f

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From vent (wind) + -er, from Latin ventus.

Pronunciation

Verb

venter (impersonal)

  1. (impersonal, weather) to be windy, to blow

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also German Wanst (belly, paunch), Old High German wanast, Sanskrit वस्ति (vasti, bladder), Latin vēsīca (bladder)[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

venter m (genitive ventris); third declension

  1. (literal)
    1. the belly
      Synonyms: alvus, abdōmen
    2. a paunch, maw, conveying the accessory idea of greediness or gormandizing
    3. (anatomy) the stomach
    4. the body, trunk
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. the womb
      1. an unborn offspring, especially a son
    2. the bowels, entrails
    3. a swelling, protuberance
  3. (figurative)
    1. sensual lust
    2. gluttony

Inflection

  • Venter has a shaky history, and some sources list it as a consonant stem, but more commonly (e.g. Allen & Greenough) it is listed as an i-stem.

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Derived terms

  • subventrālis
  • ventriculātiō
  • ventriculōsus

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: vintre
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: vintri
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  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Borrowings:
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    • Esperanto: ventro
    • Ido: ventro

References

  • venter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • venter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • venter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be the slave of one's appetite: ventri deditum esse
  1. “ventre” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
  2. Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “bèntre”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian ventre, from Latin venter.

Noun

venter

  1. belly

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

venter

  1. present of vente
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