venta

From Spanish venta.

venta (plural ventas)

1. A roadside inn in Spain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbenta/, [ˈbẽn̪.t̪a]

venta f (plural ventes)

1. sale (exchange of goods or services for currency or credit)

• vender

venta

1. inflection of ventar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From vento +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [ˈventa]
• Rhymes: -enta
• Hyphenation: ven‧ta

venta

1. windy

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.ta/

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venta

1. third-person singular past historic of venter

• Avent, navet, vante, vanté

From Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Vulgar Latin *ventana, derived from Latin ventus. Compare Portuguese ventã, Spanish ventana. Doublet of ventá.

• IPA^(key): [ˈben.tɐ]

venta f (plural ventas)

1. nostril, especially of livestock

   Synonyms: narno, ventá

   • 1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:

     Xâ me bas inchando as bentas. Fariña e[u] nome enfado, senon que digo as verdades

     You are swelling my nostrils. Fariña, I don't get mad, instead, I tell the truths

   • 1891, José Barral Campos, O amigo de S. Pedro:

     Dimpois de comer dúas cuncas de caldo, deitouse na cama, sacou da faltrica do chaleque dous cigarros e unha navalla e liando un pito, púxose a fumegar polas ventas das narices, o mesmo có tren.

     After eating two bowls of broth he laid down on the bed; he took two cigars and a pocket knife from the vest's pocket and, rolling a cigarette, began to throw smoke by the nostrils, not unlike a train

• aventar

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

venta

1. inflection of ventar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• ventet

venta

1. past indicative of vente
2. past participle of vente

• vente

From Old Norse vænta.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɛntɑ/
• (Trøndelag) IPA^(key): /ʋɛɲc/

venta (present tense ventar, past tense venta, past participle venta, passive infinitive ventast, present participle ventande, imperative venta/vent)

1. wait

   Lat oss venta eit par sekund til.

   Let's wait a couple of seconds more.

2. expect

   Kva ventar du å få ut av dette?

   What do you expect to get out of this?

• “venta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: ven‧ta

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Latin *ventāna, from Latin ventus (“wind”). Cognate with Galician ventá and Spanish ventana. Doublet of ventã and ventana.

venta f (plural ventas)

1. nostril, especially of livestock

   Synonym: narina

• vento

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

venta

1. third-person singular present indicative of ventar

• “venta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “venta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “venta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Latin vēndita, feminine of the perfect passive participle of the verb vēndō (“to sell”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbenta/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: ven‧ta

venta f (plural ventas)

1. sale

   Pone a la venta por 100.000 dólares su casa.

   He's putting his house up for sale for 100,000 dollars.

   Ya está en venta.

   It's already up for sale.

   Estaba de venta online.

   It was on sale online.

2. sales (all goods sold in a given time period)
3. roadside inn in Spain

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