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Catalan

Etymology

From vent + -ar.

Pronunciation

Verb

ventar (first-person singular present vento, first-person singular preterite ventí, past participle ventat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

  1. (intransitive) to be windy
    Synonym: ventejar
  2. (transitive) to cast to the wind, to scatter
  3. (agriculture, transitive) to winnow
  4. (transitive) to fan
    Synonym: ventallar
  5. (transitive) to move back and forth, to wave, to wag
    Synonym: brandar

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Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventar (attested since circa 1300 in Galician texts).

Pronunciation

Verb

ventar (first-person singular present vento, first-person singular preterite ventei, past participle ventado)

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) to blow (the wind)
    Synonyms: ventear, zafrear
  2. (transitive) to sniff
    • c. 1840, Antonio María de la Iglesia, editor, El idioma Gallego, su antigüedad y vida, A Coruña: Latorre y Martínez Edts, page 180:
      por eso andades pillando votos a bandadas como cando preada ventan os corvos; Por eso eres ti do banco donde se xuntan os votos pra trocar as papeletas e facer outros embrollos
      that's the reason behind you catching votes at large as when the crows sniff a carcass; because of this, you are of the bench where the ballots are reunited to change the papers and to do other wrongs
  3. (transitive) to have a feeling; to find out; to suspect
    Synonyms: barruntar, presentir, sospeitar
    • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso:
      Mais non podès, porque ò lume,
      por moito que se atafegue,
      logo ò venta quen se achegue,
      anque del non vexa fume
      But thou can't, because fire,
      no matter how much you suffocate it,
      it is soon perceived by someone who comes near,
      even it they don't see their smoke

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Ido

Etymology

From vento + -ar.

Pronunciation

Verb

ventar (present tense ventas, past tense ventis, future tense ventos, imperative ventez, conditional ventus)

  1. (intransitive) to blow, be windy

Conjugation

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ventar

  1. present of venta

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