# venter
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛn.tə(ɹ)/
* Audio (US):(file)
* 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.
** 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.

### 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

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

venter m (plural venters, diminutive ventertje n)
* a vendor, peddler, door-to-door salesman

#### Derived terms

* bloemenventer m
* dagbladventer m
* fruitventer m
* gelegenheidsventer m
* groenteventer m
* marktventer m
* melkventer m
* petroleumventer m
* straatventer m
* visventer m (obsolete spelling vischventer m)
* ideeënventer m
* potloodventer m
* venterigge
* ventersbond m
* ventersgeroep n
* ventersgroep
* venterskar
* venterskreet
* venterskroeg
* ventster f

### Anagrams

* vreten

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑ̃.te/
* Homophones: venté, ventée, ventées, ventés
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### 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

* venter à décorner les bœufs
* venter à écorner les bœufs

### 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: /ˈu̯en.ter/, [ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈven.ter/, [ˈvɛn̪t̪er]

### 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
* This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

#### Inflection

* Venter has a shaky history, and some sources list it as a consonant stem, but more commonly (e.g. Allen & Greenough) it is listed as an i-stem.
Third-declension noun (i-stem or parisyllabic non-i-stem).

#### Derived terms

* curtiventris
* subventrīle
* ventrālis
* ventricola
* ventricultor
* ventriculus
* ventrifluus
* ventriloquus
* ventriōsus

#### Related terms

* subventrālis
* ventriculātiō
* ventriculōsus

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Romanian: vintre
* Dalmatian:
** viantro
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: ventre
** Neapolitan: ventre
** Sicilian: ventri
* North Italian:
** Friulian: vintri
** Romansch: venter, vainter
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: ventro
** French: ventre
** Norman: ventre, vãtr (Sark)
** Walloon: vinte
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: ventre
** Occitan: ventre, vente
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: vientre
** Galician: ventre
** Portuguese: ventre
** Spanish: vientre
* Insular Romance:
** Old Sardinian: ventre (feminine, as all its descendants remain)
*** Campidanese: bentri, brenti
*** Gallurese: ventri
*** Logudorese: bentre
*** Nuorese: brente, frente, ventre
*** Sassarese: ventri
* Borrowings:
** → English: venter
** → Esperanto: ventro
** → Ido: ventro

### 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, London: Macmillan and Co. to be the slave of one's appetite: ventri deditum esse
* ↑ “ventre” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
* ↑ Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “bèntre”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

## Lombard
### Etymology

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

### Noun

venter
* belly

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

venter
* present of vente