ventripotent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French ventripotent, from Latin venter (“belly”) + potens (“powerful”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /vɛnˈtɹɪpətənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]ventripotent (comparative more ventripotent, superlative most ventripotent)
- Having a big belly.
- 1694, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Pantagruel, Book LIX, (chapter title):
- Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how, and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent [translating ventripotent] god.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 714:
- The reception committee consisted of Constance and a ventripotent Swiss banker, representing the Red Cross [...].
- Gluttonous.
Translations
[edit]Gluttonous
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French
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Daniel_Lambert.jpg/220px-Daniel_Lambert.jpg)
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]ventripotent (feminine ventripotente, masculine plural ventripotents, feminine plural ventripotentes)
- having a big belly, ventripotent
Further reading
[edit]- “ventripotent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ventripotent.
Adjective
[edit]ventripotent m or n (feminine singular ventripotentă, masculine plural ventripotenți, feminine and neuter plural ventripotente)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ventripotent
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | ventripotent | ventripotentă | ventripotenți | ventripotente | ||
definite | ventripotentul | ventripotenta | ventripotenții | ventripotentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | ventripotent | ventripotente | ventripotenți | ventripotente | ||
definite | ventripotentului | ventripotentei | ventripotenților | ventripotentelor |
References
[edit]- ventripotent in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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