ventar

From vent +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [venˈtaɾ]

ventar (first-person singular present vento, first-person singular preterite ventí, past participle ventat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to be windy

   Synonym: ventejar

2. (transitive) to cast to the wind, to scatter
3. (agriculture, transitive) to winnow
4. (transitive) to fan

   Synonym: ventallar

5. (transitive) to move back and forth, to wave, to wag

   Synonym: brandar

• ventador
• ventafocs
• ventall

• “ventar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventar (attested since circa 1300 in Galician texts).

• IPA^(key): /benˈtaɾ/

ventar (first-person singular present vento, first-person singular preterite ventei, past participle ventado)

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to blow (the wind)

   Synonyms: ventear, zafrear

2. (transitive) to sniff
   • c. 1840, Antonio María de la Iglesia, editor, El idioma Gallego, su antigüedad y vida, A Coruña: Latorre y Martínez Edts, page 180:

     por eso andades pillando votos a bandadas como cando preada ventan os corvos; Por eso eres ti do banco donde se xuntan os votos pra trocar as papeletas e facer outros embrollos

     that's the reason behind you catching votes at large as when the crows sniff a carcass; because of this, you are of the bench where the ballots are reunited to change the papers and to do other wrongs

3. (transitive) to have a feeling; to find out; to suspect

   Synonyms: barruntar, presentir, sospeitar

   • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso:

     Mais non podès, porque ò lume,
     por moito que se atafegue,
     logo ò venta quen se achegue,
     anque del non vexa fume

     But thou can't, because fire,
     no matter how much you suffocate it,
     it is soon perceived by someone who comes near,
     even it they don't see their smoke

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ventar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uentar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ventar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “ventar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ventar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “ventar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ventar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From vento +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /venˈtar/

ventar (present tense ventas, past tense ventis, future tense ventos, imperative ventez, conditional ventus)

1. (intransitive) to blow, be windy

ventar

1. present of venta

vento +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /βẽnˈtaɾ/, /βẽˈtaɾ/

ventar

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to blow (the wind)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 519:

     Tanto que fuy manãa, fezo o sol muy claro et muy bõo, et despois cõmeçou d'escureçer et de chouer et uentar muyto, et todos andauã mollados et anoiados

     As soon as it dawned it was sunny and clear, but then it darkened and it rained and the wind blew strongly, and everyone was wet and annoyed

2. (transitive) to have a feeling; to find out; to suspect

   Synonyms: barruntar, presentir, sospeitar

   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: IEOPF, page 873:

     Mays os mouros ouuerõ a uentar a caua que elles llj faziã

     But the Moors eventually discovered the mine that they were digging [under the Moor's castle]

• Galician: ventar
• Portuguese: ventar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ventar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

14th century. From vento (“wind”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: ven‧tar

ventar (impersonal, third-person singular present venta, third-person singular preterite ventou, past participle ventado)

1. (intransitive, impersonal, of wind) to blow

• ventania

From viento +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /benˈtaɾ/ [bẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ven‧tar

ventar (first-person singular present viento, first-person singular preterite venté, past participle ventado)

1. (intransitive) to blow
2. (transitive) to sniff, scent

• “ventar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024