ventura

• IPA^(key): /venˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: ven‧tù‧ra

From Latin ventūra (“the things that will come”, i.e. “the future”), neuter plural form of ventūrus (“which will come”), future active participle of veniō (“to come, approach”).

ventura f (plural venture)

1. destiny, fate, chance

   Synonyms: destino, fato, sorte

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 19–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     mentre ch’io era a Virgilio congiunto
     su per lo monte che l’anime cura
     e discendendo nel mondo defunto,
     dette mi fuor di mia vita futura
     parole gravi, avvegna ch’io mi senta
     ben tetragono ai colpi di ventura

     While I was together with Virgil, up the mountain that heals the souls, and [when] descending into the dead world, I was told grievous words of my future life; although I feel solid against the blows of chance

2. (archaic) chance, coincidence, accident

   Synonym: caso

   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 91–93; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     E io a lui: «Qual forza o qual ventura
     ti travïò sì fuor di Campaldino,
     che non si seppe mai tua sepultura?».

     And I to him: "What force, or what accident, led you astray so far from Campaldino, that your burial place was never known?

3. fortune, chance, luck

   Synonyms: fortuna, sorte

   Antonym: sventura

• sventura
• venturiero
• venturoso

• venturo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ventura f sg

1. feminine singular of venturo

• ventura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

ventūra

1. inflection of ventūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

ventūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of ventūrus

• "ventura", 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)

Borrowed from Italian ventura. Doublet of vintura, from Sicilian.

• IPA^(key): /vɛnˈtuː.ra/

ventura f (plural venturi)

1. fortune, chance

   Alternative form: vintura (obsolete)

• ventüra

• IPA^(key): /vɛŋˈtyra/

ventura f (plural venture)

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• vẽtura (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ventura, from Latin ventūra.

• Hyphenation: ven‧tu‧ra

ventura f (plural venturas)

1. fortune, chance, luck

   Synonyms: acaso, fortuna, sorte

   Antonym: desventura

2. happiness

   Synonym: felicidade

3. venture

• à ventura
• por ventura
• porventura
• venturoso

From Latin ventūra (“the things that will come, i.e. the future”), neuter plural form of ventūrus (“which will come”), future active participle of veniō (“to come, approach”).

• IPA^(key): /benˈtuɾa/ [bẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: ven‧tu‧ra

ventura f (plural venturas)

1. fortune, chance, luck

   Synonyms: fortuna, suerte

ventura f

1. feminine singular of venturo

• “ventura”, 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