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ventus
ventus
Latin
Noun
ventus m (genitive ventī); second declension
- a wind
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | ventus | ventī |
genitive | ventī | ventōrum |
dative | ventō | ventīs |
accusative | ventum | ventōs |
ablative | ventō | ventīs |
vocative | vente | ventī |
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Perfect passive participle of veniō.
Participle
ventus m (feminine venta, neuter ventum); first/second declension
- having come
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | ventus | venta | ventum | ventī | ventae | venta | |
genitive | ventī | ventae | ventī | ventōrum | ventārum | ventōrum | |
dative | ventō | ventō | ventīs | ||||
accusative | ventum | ventam | ventum | ventōs | ventās | venta | |
ablative | ventō | ventā | ventō | ventīs | |||
vocative | vente | venta | ventum | ventī | ventae | venta |
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ventus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)
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(ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
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(ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
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(ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
- there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
- ventus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers