ventus

• IPA^(key): /ˈventus/

ventus

1. conditional of ventar

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯en.tus/, [ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈven.tus/, [ˈvɛn̪t̪us]

From Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognate and synonymous with English wind, Sanskrit वात (vā́ta), Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀 (vāta), Ancient Greek ἀείς (aeís) . See also Latin vannus.

ventus m (genitive ventī); second declension

2. a wind
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.704-705:

     [...] Omnis et ūna / dīlāpsus calor, atque in ventōs vīta recessit.

     And all at once her warmth faded away, and her life receded into the winds.
     (The death of Dido; the conclusion of Book 4. See the notes by Page, T.E., [1967], pg. 394: “‘Life,’ ‘breath,’ ‘spirit,’ anima, ἄνεμος are so closely connected in human speech that poets naturally speak of life passing ‘into the winds.’”)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.729–730:

     Mōta dea est operīque favet: nāvālibus exit
     puppis, habent ventōs iam mea vēla suōs.

     The goddess is moved and she favors the work: my ship is leaving the docks, already my sails have their winds.
     (Inspiration returns as, metaphorically, the poet and his readers sail onward. Idiomatically, Ovid ‘‘has found his second wind’’ while writing the fourth book of the Fasti.)

Second-declension noun.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vimtu, vintu, vint
  • Megleno-Romanian: vint
  • Romanian: vânt
• Dalmatian:
  • viant
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: ventu
  • Italian: vento
  • Neapolitan: viento
  • Sicilian: ventu, vientu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bentu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: vint
  • Istriot: vento
  • Lombard: vent
  • Piedmontese: vent
  • Romagnol: vènt
  • Romansch: vent
  • Venetan: vento, vent
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vent
  • Franco-Provençal: vent
  • Old French: vent (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: vent
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: biento
  • Asturian: vientu
  • Leonese: vientu
  • Mirandese: biento
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vento
    • Fala: ventu
    • Galician: vento
    • Portuguese: vento (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: viento, biento
    • Ladino: viento
    • Spanish: viento
• Vulgar Latin: *ventāna (see there for further descendants)

From Proto-Italic *gʷentus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷém-tu-s, from *gʷem-. Related to veniō.

ventus m (genitive ventūs); fourth declension

2. arrival

Fourth-declension noun.

• “ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ventus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ventus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
    
  • the wind is falling: ventus remittit (opp. increbrescit)
    
  • the wind dies down, ceases: ventus cadit, cessat
    
  • to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
    
  • the wind is turning to the south-west: ventus se vertit in Africum
    
  • the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
    
  • with the wind against one: ventis reflantibus (Tusc. 1. 49)
    
  • (ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
    
• “ventus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin ventōsus.

ventus

1. windy