ventura

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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).

Noun

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ventura f (plural venture)

  1. destiny, fate, chance
    Synonyms: destino, fato, sorte
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 19–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd 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]‎[3], lines 91–93; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[4], 2nd 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
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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ventura f sg

  1. feminine singular of venturo

Further reading

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

Latin

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Participle

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ventūra

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

Participle

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ventūrā

  1. ablative feminine singular of ventūrus

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Maltese

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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ventura f (plural venturi)

  1. fortune, chance
    Alternative form: vintura (obsolete)

Piedmontese

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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ventura f (plural venture)

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Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese ventura, from Latin ventūra.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ven‧tu‧ra

Noun

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ventura f (plural venturas)

  1. fortune, chance, luck
    Synonyms: acaso, fortuna, sorte
    Synonym: desventura
  2. happiness
    Synonym: felicidade
  3. venture

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Spanish

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Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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ventura f (plural venturas)

  1. fortune, chance, luck
    Synonyms: fortuna, suerte

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Adjective

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ventura f

  1. feminine singular of venturo

Further reading

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