Definitions and meaning of vent
vent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛnt/
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- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology 1
Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- A small aperture.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Synonym: touch hole
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
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- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vent.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of ventriloquism
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- Ventriloquism.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).
Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
- To sell; to vend.
Etymology 4
From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.
Etymology 5
Clipping.
Noun
vent (plural vents)
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
Verb
vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
Derived terms
- venting (n.)
- vented (adj.)
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Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈben]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvent]
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- Rhymes: -ent
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- wind (movement of air)
- (castells) a casteller in the pinya standing between the laterals, and holding the right leg of one segon and the left leg of another (primer vent), or a casteller placed behind one of the primers vents
Derived terms
References
- “vent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
- “vent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “vent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Pronunciation
Verb
vent
- imperative of vente
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”). Unknown earlier origin. Compare West Frisian feint (“servant; fellow; boyfriend”), Low German Fent (“young fellow”), Saterland Frisian Wäänt (“boy, lad”).
- Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *fanþijō (“walker, walking”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass”). This would make it related to Dutch vinden (“to find; (archaic) to explore”) and cognate to Old High German fendo (“footsoldier”) and Old English fēþa (“footsoldier”). The expected descendant in Dutch would have been vend(e), which existed in Middle Dutch as vende (“pawn in a chess game; farmer”). Final-obstruent devoicing is common in Dutch and was already widespread in Old Dutch, rendering vent as a variant of vend(e) possible (compare zat).
- Possibly a shortening of vennoot (“partner (in a company)”), which is equivalent to a compound of veem (“(storage) company”) + genoot (“companion, partner”), but there is no evidence of an overlap in senses.
Noun
vent m (plural venten, diminutive ventje n)
- chap, fellow
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: vent
- Javindo: fen, fent
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
vent
- inflection of venten:
- first/second/third-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Franco-Provençal
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ventus.
Noun
vent m (plural vents) (ORB, broad)
- wind
References
- vent in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- vent in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French vent, from Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
- (France) IPA(key): /vɑ̃/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /vã/
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- Rhymes: -ɑ̃
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- wind
- moulin à vent ― windmill
- petite pluie abat grand vent ― a little kindness goes a long way (literally, “a little rain abates a great wind”)
- rose des vents ― compass rose (literally, “rose of the winds”)
- qui sème le vent récolte la tempête ― who sows the wind harvests the tempest
- (euphemistic) flatulence
- Synonym: (neutral) pet
- (uncountable) empty words, hot air
- Synonym: paroles en l'air
- Toutes ces promesses, c'est du vent. ― Those are empty promises.
- (slang)
- se prendre un vent ― to be completely blanked, to receive no answer, to be rebuffed by having one's advances ignored
- mettre un vent à quelqu'un, faire un vent à quelqu'un, foutre un vent à quelqu'un ― to ignore someone, to give someone the cold shoulder, to brush someone off, to diss someone
- un gros vent, un énorme vent ― a blast, a verbal attack or severe reprimand
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) wind instrument
- Synonym: instrument à vent
Derived terms
Related terms
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Further reading
- “vent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Lombard
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ventus.
Pronunciation
- (Milanese) IPA(key): /ˈvɛːnt/
Noun
vent m
- 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
- Arrighi, Cletto (1896) Dizionario milanese-italiano, col repertorio italiano-milanese: […] [4] (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page 800
- Angiolini, Francesco (1897) Vocabolario milanese-italiano coi segni per la pronuncia[5] (in Italian), page 903
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French vent, from Latin ventus.
Noun
vent m (plural vens or vents)
- wind
Descendants
References
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- vent on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- (Jersey, Guernsey) wind
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
vent
- neuter singular of ven
Verb
vent
- imperative of vente
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
vent
- imperative of venta
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Participle
vent (definite singular and plural vente)
- past participle of venna
Participle
vent
- neuter singular of vend
Verb
vent
- supine of venna
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Adjective
vent
- neuter singular of ven
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus.
Pronunciation
Noun
vent m (plural vents)
- wind (movement of air)
Related terms
Old French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ventus.
Pronunciation
- (archaic) IPA(key): /ˈvent/
- (classical) IPA(key): /ˈvant/
- Rhymes: -ent
Noun
vent oblique singular, m (oblique plural venz or ventz, nominative singular venz or ventz, nominative plural vent)
- wind (movement of air)
Descendants
- Bourguignon: vant
- → English: vent
- Middle French: vent
- Norman: vent
- Walloon: vint
From vent d'aval:
- → Galician: vendaval
- → Portuguese: vendaval
- → Spanish: vendaval
Romansch
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ventus.
Noun
vent m
- wind
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