venter

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.tə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

venter (plural venters)

1. A woman with offspring.
2. (biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:
   1. (zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod.
   2. (botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.
3. A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone.

• ventricle

From vent +‎ -er.

venter (plural venters)

1. One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems.
   • 2006, David Laton, Developing Positive Workplace Skills and Attitudes, →ISBN, page 72:

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

Cognate with Dutch venter (“vendor, peddler”).

venter (plural venters)

1. (obsolete) A vendor.

• Ventre, Vernet

venter

1. present of vente

From venten +‎ -er.

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venter m (plural venters, diminutive ventertje n)

1. a vendor, peddler, door-to-door salesman

• vreten

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

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.te/
• Homophones: venté, ventée, ventées, ventés

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venter (impersonal)

1. (impersonal, weather) to be windy, to blow

This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

• “venter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rêvent, ventre

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also German Wanst (“belly, paunch”), Old High German wanast, Sanskrit वस्ति (vasti, “bladder”), Latin vēsīca (“bladder”)^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛn.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛn̪.t̪er]

venter m (genitive ventris); third declension

1. (literal)
   1. the belly

      Synonyms: alvus, abdōmen

   2. a paunch, maw, conveying the accessory idea of greediness or gormandizing
   3. (anatomy) the stomach
   4. the body, trunk
2. (transferred sense)
   1. the womb
      1. an unborn offspring, especially a son
   2. the bowels, entrails
   3. a swelling, protuberance
3. (figurative)
   1. sensual lust
   2. gluttony

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• subventrālis
• ventriculātiō
• ventriculōsus

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be the slave of one's appetite: ventri deditum esse
    

From Latin venter. Akin to Italian ventre, French ventre etc.

venter

1. belly

venter

1. present of vente