venter

See also: Venter

English

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

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

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 Dutch venter (“vendor, peddler”).

Noun

venter (plural venters)

  1. (obsolete) A vendor.

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

venter

  1. present of vente

Dutch

Etymology

From venten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
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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

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

venter (impersonal)

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

Conjugation

This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of venter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple venter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple ventant
/vɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle venté
/vɑ̃.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present — — vente
/vɑ̃t/		 — — —
imperfect — — ventait
/vɑ̃.tɛ/		 — — —
past historic2 — — venta
/vɑ̃.ta/		 — — —
future — — ventera
/vɑ̃.tʁa/		 — — —
conditional — — venterait
/vɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 — — —
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present — — vente
/vɑ̃t/		 — — —
imperfect2 — — ventât
/vɑ̃.ta/		 — — —
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — — — — — —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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.

Third-declension noun (i-stem or parisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative venter ventrēs
Genitive ventris ventrium
ventrum
Dative ventrī ventribus
Accusative ventrem ventrēs
ventrīs
Ablative ventre ventribus
Vocative venter ventrēs

Derived terms
  • subventrālis
  • ventriculātiō
  • ventriculōsus

Descendants

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

From Latin venter. Akin to Italian ventre, French ventre etc.

Noun

venter

  1. belly

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

venter

  1. present of vente
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