venta

See also: ventá and ventã

English

Etymology

From Spanish venta

Noun

venta (plural ventas)

1. A roadside inn in Spain.

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Asturian

Noun

venta f (plural ventes)

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

Related terms

• vender

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.ta/

Verb

venta

1. third-person singular past historic of venter

Anagrams

• Avent, navet, vante, vanté

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈben.tɐ]

Noun

venta f (plural ventas)

1. nostril, especially of livestock
   • 1822, anonymous, 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

   Synonyms: narno, ventá

Derived terms

• aventar

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uentaas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “venta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ventet

Verb

venta

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• vente

Etymology

From Old Norse vænta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɛntɑ/

Verb

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?

References

• “venta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: ven‧ta

Noun

venta f (plural ventas)

1. nostril, especially of livestock

   Synonym: narina

Related terms

• ventã

References

• Template:R:Priberam
• “venta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “venta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbenta/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪a]

Noun

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

Derived terms

• autoventa
• impuesto a la venta de los bienes y servicios
• venta al por mayor
• venta al por menor