ventus

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈventus/

Verb

ventus

1. conditional of ventar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯en.tus/, [ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈven.tus/, [ˈvɛn̪t̪us]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognate and synonymous with English wind, Sanskrit वात (vā́ta), Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀 (vāta), Ancient Greek ἀείς (aeís) . See also Latin vannus.

Noun

ventus m (genitive ventī); second declension

2. a wind
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.704-705:

     [...] Omnis et ūna / dīlāpsus calor, atque in ventōs vīta recessit.

     And all at once her warmth faded away, and her life receded into the winds.
     (The death of Dido; the conclusion of Book 4. See the notes by Page, T.E., [1967], pg. 394: “‘Life,’ ‘breath,’ ‘spirit,’ anima, ἄνεμος are so closely connected in human speech that poets naturally speak of life passing ‘into the winds.’”)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.729–730:

     Mōta dea est operīque favet: nāvālibus exit
     puppis, habent ventōs iam mea vēla suōs.

     The goddess is moved and she favors the work: my ship is leaving the docks, already my sails have their winds.
     (Inspiration returns as, metaphorically, the poet and his readers sail onward. Idiomatically, Ovid ‘‘has found his second wind’’ while writing the fourth book of the Fasti.)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ventus	ventī
genitive	ventī	ventōrum
dative	ventō	ventīs
accusative	ventum	ventōs
ablative	ventō	ventīs
vocative	vente	ventī

Derived terms

• ventōsus
• ventulus

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vimtu, vintu, vint
  • Megleno-Romanian: vint
  • Romanian: vânt
• Dalmatian:
  • viant
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: ventu
  • Italian: vento
  • Neapolitan: viento
  • Sicilian: ventu, vientu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bentu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: vint
  • Istriot: vento
  • Lombard: vent
  • Piedmontese: vent
  • Romagnol: vènt
  • Romansch: vent
  • Venetan: vento, vent
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vent
  • Franco-Provençal: vent
  • Old French: vent (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: vent
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: biento
  • Asturian: vientu
  • Leonese: vientu
  • Mirandese: biento
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vento
    • Fala: ventu
    • Galician: vento
    • Portuguese: vento (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: viento, biento
    • Ladino: viento
    • Spanish: viento
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ventāna (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *gʷentus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷém-tu-s, from *gʷem-. Related to veniō.

Noun

ventus m (genitive ventūs); fourth declension

2. arrival

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ventus	ventūs
genitive	ventūs	ventuum
dative	ventuī	ventibus
accusative	ventum	ventūs
ablative	ventū	ventibus
vocative	ventus	ventūs

References

• “ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ventus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ventus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
    
  • the wind is falling: ventus remittit (opp. increbrescit)
    
  • the wind dies down, ceases: ventus cadit, cessat
    
  • to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
    
  • the wind is turning to the south-west: ventus se vertit in Africum
    
  • the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
    
  • with the wind against one: ventis reflantibus (Tusc. 1. 49)
    
  • (ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
    
• “ventus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin ventōsus.

Adjective

ventus

1. windy