# vento
## Catalan
### Verb

vento
* first-person singular present indicative of ventar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvento]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ento
* Hyphenation: ven‧to

### Noun

vento (accusative singular venton, plural ventoj, accusative plural ventojn)
* (weather) wind
    La vento forte blovis tra la arbaro hieraŭ.The wind blew strongly through the forest yesterday.

#### Derived terms

* suna vento
* sunvento
* ventanima
* ventego
* ventmuelejo
* ventoturbino
* ventumi

## Galician
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese vento, from Latin ventus.

#### Noun

vento m (plural ventos)
* wind (movement of air)

##### Derived terms

* ventar
* ventear
* vento solar
* vento tolo
* Ventosa
* Ventosela
* ventoselo
* ventoso

##### Related terms

* vendaval

#### References

* 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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

vento
* first-person singular present indicative of ventar

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto vento, from Latin ventus.

### Noun

vento (plural venti)
* (weather) wind

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin ventus.

### Noun

vento m
* wind

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛn.to/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnto
* Hyphenation: vèn‧to

### Noun

vento m (plural venti)
* wind (movement of air caused by differences in atmospheric pressure)

#### Related terms

* mulino a vento
* rosa dei venti
* sventare
* ventaglio
* ventata
* venticello
* ventilare
* vento solare
* vento stellare
* ventola
* ventosa
* ventoso

#### See also

* meteorologia

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Frequentative of veniō (“I come”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯en.toː/, [ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈven.to/, [ˈvɛn̪t̪o]

#### Verb

ventō (present infinitive ventāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems
* (intransitive) to be wont to come, come often, keep coming, resort

##### Synonyms

* (I am wont to come): ventitō

##### Related terms

* adveniō
* adventō
* antēveniō
* circumveniō
* contraveniō
* conveniō
* conventō
* dēveniō
* ēveniō
* interveniō
* inveniō
* obveniō
* perveniō
* praeveniō
* prōveniō
* reveniō
* subveniō
* subventō
* superveniō
* transveniō
* veniō
* ventiō
* ventitō

### Etymology 2

See ventus

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯en.toː/, [ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈven.to/, [ˈvɛn̪t̪o]

#### Noun

ventō m
* dative/ablative singular of ventus (“wind”)

### References

* “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, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare

## Ligurian
### Noun

vento m (plural venti)
* wind
* (slang) money

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin ventus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈβẽ.to/

### Noun

vento m (plural ventos)
* wind

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* 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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈvẽ.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbẽ.tu/
* Rhymes: -ẽtu
* Hyphenation: ven‧to

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

vento m (plural ventos)
* wind (moving air)
* (less common) air (gases of the atmosphere)
    Synonym: ar
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* cata-vento
* para-vento
* ventinho

##### Related terms

* vendaval
* ventã
* ventar
* ventilar

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

vento
* first-person singular present indicative of ventar

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbento/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ento
* Syllabification: ven‧to

### Noun

vento m (plural ventos)
* (obsolete in Rioplatense and Peru, criminal slang in Bolivia and Chile) money
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

## Venetan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛn.to/

### Noun

vento m (plural venti)
* wind

### References

* 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