vento

vento

1. first-person singular present indicative of ventar

From French vent and Italian vento, both from Latin ventus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvento/

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: ven‧to

vento (accusative singular venton, plural ventoj, accusative plural ventojn)

1. (weather) wind

   La vento forte blovis tra la arbaro hieraŭ.

   The wind blew strongly through the forest yesterday.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbento/ [ˈben̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ento
• IPA^(key): (dialectal) /ˈbɛnto/ [ˈbɛn̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: ven‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese vento, from Latin ventus.

vento m (plural ventos)

1. wind (movement of air)

• vendaval

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vento”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

vento

1. first-person singular present indicative of ventar

From Esperanto vento, from Latin ventus.

vento (plural venti)

1. (weather) wind

From Latin ventus.

vento m

1. wind

From Latin ventus (“wind”), from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts, from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.to/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: vèn‧to

vento m (plural venti)

1. wind (movement of air caused by differences in atmospheric pressure)

• meteorologia

Frequentative of veniō (“I come”).

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

ventō (present infinitive ventāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. (intransitive) to be wont to come, come often, keep coming, resort

• (I am wont to come): ventitō

See ventus

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

ventō m

1. dative/ablative singular of ventus (“wind”)

• “vento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
    

vento m (plural venti)

1. wind
2. (slang) money

From Latin ventus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈβẽ.to/

vento m (plural ventos)

1. wind

• Fala: ventu
• Galician: vento
• Portuguese: vento (see there for further descendants)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “vento”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: ven‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese vento, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

vento m (plural ventos)

1. wind (moving air)
2. (less common) air (gases of the atmosphere)

   Synonym: ar

3. (Brazil, figurative) nothingness; nothing (the lack of something)

   Synonym: nada

   Coloquei a mão no bolso para pegar a carteira, mas só encontrei vento.

   I put my hand in my pocket to get my wallet, but I found nothing.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: bentu
• Kabuverdianu: bentu
• Papiamentu: bientu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vento

1. first-person singular present indicative of ventar

• “vento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Ligurian vento. Doublet of viento. Originally a Lunfardo word.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbento/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: ven‧to

vento m (plural ventos)

1. (obsolete in Rioplatense and Peru, criminal slang in Bolivia and Chile) money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

From Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.to/

vento m (plural venti)

1. wind

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 399: “il vento; i venti” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “vento”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 786