venter

English

Etymology 1

Cognate with Dutch venter.

Noun

venter (plural venters)

  1. (obsolete) A vendor.

Etymology 2

From Latin venter (“belly, womb, offspring”).

Noun

venter (plural venters)

  1. A woman with offspring
  2. (anatomy) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:
    1. the belly
    2. an abdomen
  3. A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone

Etymology 3

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 (page 72)
      Venters suffer interpersonally as others avoid their outburst, they become isolated and alone which may result in more venting.

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

venter

  1. present of vente

Dutch

Etymology

From venten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

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
  • venterigge
  • ventster f
  • potloodventer m
  • ventersbond m
  • ventersgeroep n
  • ventersgroep
  • venterskar
  • venterskreet
  • venterskroeg

Anagrams

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɑ̃.te/
  • Audio (Paris)(file)

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)
present participle ventant
/vɑ̃.tɑ̃/
past participle venté
/vɑ̃.te/
infinitive
simple venter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple ventant
/vɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle 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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwen.ter/, [ˈwɛn.tɛr]

Noun

venter m (genitive ventris); third declension

  1. (anatomy) belly, abdomen
  2. (anatomy) body, trunk
  3. (anatomy) stomach
  4. (anatomy) womb
  5. unborn offspring, especially son
  6. sensual lust
  7. gluttony

Inflection

Venter has a shaky history, and some sources list it as a consonant stem. Allen & Greenough refers to it as an i-stem.

Third declension i-stem.

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

More often: Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

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

Derived terms
  • 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

venter

  1. present tense of vente
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