venter

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.tə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”). ==== Noun ==== venter (plural venters) A woman with offspring. (biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably: (zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod. (botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops. A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone. ===== Related terms ===== ventricle === Etymology 2 === From vent + -er. ==== Noun ==== venter (plural venters) One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems. === Etymology 3 === Cognate with Dutch venter (“vendor, peddler”). ==== Noun ==== venter (plural venters) (obsolete) A vendor. === Anagrams === Ventre, Vernet == Danish == === Verb === venter present of vente == Dutch == === Etymology === From venten +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === === Noun === venter m (plural venters, diminutive ventertje n) a vendor, peddler, door-to-door salesman ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === vreten == French == === Etymology === From vent (“wind”) +‎ -er, from Latin ventus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vɑ̃.te/ Homophones: venté, ventée, ventées, ventés === Verb === venter (impersonal) (impersonal, weather) to be windy, to blow ==== Conjugation ==== This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular. ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “venter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === rêvent, ventre == 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”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɛn.tɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛn.ter] === Noun === venter m (genitive ventris); third declension (literal) the belly Synonyms: alvus, abdōmen a paunch, maw, conveying the accessory idea of greediness or gormandizing (anatomy) the stomach the body, trunk (transferred sense) the womb an unborn offspring, especially a son the bowels, entrails a swelling, protuberance (figurative) sensual lust gluttony ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Lombard == === Etymology === From Latin venter. Akin to Italian ventre, French ventre etc. === Noun === venter belly == Norwegian Bokmål == === Verb === venter present of vente