# venta
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish venta.

### Noun

venta (plural ventas)
* A roadside inn in Spain.

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbenta/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪a]

### Noun

venta f (plural ventes)
* sale (exchange of goods or services for currency or credit)

#### Related terms

* vender

## Catalan
### Verb

venta
* inflection of ventar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From vento +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈventa]
* Rhymes: -enta
* Hyphenation: ven‧ta

### Adjective

venta
* windy

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑ̃.ta/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

venta
* third-person singular past historic of venter

### Anagrams

* Avent, navet, vante, vanté

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Vulgar Latin *ventana, derived from Latin ventus. Compare Portuguese ventã, Spanish ventana. Doublet of ventá.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbenta/ [ˈben̪.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -enta
* Hyphenation: ven‧ta

#### Noun

venta f (plural ventas)
* nostril, especially of livestock
    Synonyms: narno, ventá
** 1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:Xâ me bas inchando as bentas. Fariña e[u] nome enfado, senon que digo as verdadesYou are swelling my nostrils. Fariña, I don't get mad, instead, I tell the truths
** 1891, José Barral Campos, O amigo de S. Pedro:Dimpois de comer dúas cuncas de caldo, deitouse na cama, sacou da faltrica do chaleque dous cigarros e unha navalla e liando un pito, púxose a fumegar polas ventas das narices, o mesmo có tren.After eating two bowls of broth he laid down on the bed; he took two cigars and a pocket knife from the vest's pocket and, rolling a cigarette, began to throw smoke by the nostrils, not unlike a train

##### Derived terms

* aventar

#### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uentaas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “venta”, 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), “venta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “venta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

venta
* inflection of ventar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Ingrian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish venda. Akin to Votic ventõ.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈʋentɑ/, [ˈʋe̞nt]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈʋentɑ/, [ˈʋe̞nd̥ɑ]
* Rhymes: -ent, -entɑ
* Hyphenation: ven‧ta

### Noun

venta
* (nautical) tack (turn during sailing)

#### Declension
### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 653

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* ventet

### Verb

venta
* past indicative of vente
* past participle of vente

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* vente

### Etymology

From Old Norse vænta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ʋɛntɑ/
* (Trøndelag dialect) IPA: /ʋɛɲc/

### Verb

venta (present tense ventar, past tense venta, past participle venta, passive infinitive ventast, present participle ventande, imperative venta/vent)
* wait
    Lat oss venta eit par sekund til.Let's wait a couple of seconds more.
* expect
    Kva ventar du å få ut av dette?What do you expect to get out of this?

### References

* “venta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈvẽ.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvẽ.tɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbẽ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
* Hyphenation: ven‧ta

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Latin *ventāna, from Latin ventus (“wind”). Cognate with Galician ventá and Spanish ventana. Doublet of ventã and ventana.

#### Noun

venta f (plural ventas)
* nostril, especially of livestock
    Synonym: narina

##### Related terms

* vento

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

venta
* third-person singular present indicative of ventar

### References

* “venta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “venta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “venta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vēndita, feminine of the perfect passive participle of the verb vēndō (“to sell”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbenta/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -enta
* Syllabification: ven‧ta

### Noun

venta f (plural ventas)
* sale
    Pone a la venta por 100.000 dólares su casa.He's putting his house up for sale for 100,000 dollars.
    Ya está en venta.It's already up for sale.
    Estaba de venta online.It was on sale online.
* sales (all goods sold in a given time period)
* roadside inn in Spain

#### Derived terms

* autoventa
* carta de venta
* en venta
* impuesto a la venta de los bienes y servicios
* posventa
* ser una venta
* televenta
* venta al por mayor
* venta al por menor
* ventero

#### Related terms

* vender

### Further reading

* “venta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10