• IPA^(key):/vɛnt/

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• Rhymes:-ɛnt

Partly fromMiddle Frenchvent, fromLatinventus and partly fromFrenchéventer. Cognate withFrenchvent andSpanishviento(“wind”) andventana(“window”).Doublet ofwind.

vent (pluralvents)

1. Anopening through whichgases, especiallyair, can pass.

   thevent of a cask; thevent of a mould

   • 2014,Elizabeth Kolbert,The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador,→ISBN, page122:

     According to geologists who work in the area, thevents at Castello Aragonese have been spewing carbon dioxide for at least several hundred years, maybe longer.

2. A smallaperture.
   • c.1602,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Look, how thy wounds do bleed at manyvents.

   • 1715,[Alexander] Pope,The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London:[…]Bernard Lintott […],→OCLC,page41:

     There, at one Paſſage, oft you might ſurvey / A Lye and Truth contending for the vvay; / And long 'tvvas doubtful, both ſo cloſely pent, / VVhich firſt ſhould iſſue thro the narrovvVent:[…]

3. An opening in avolcano from whichlava orgas flows.
4. Arant; a long session of expressingverbalfrustration.
5. Theexcretory opening of lowerorders ofvertebrates;cloaca.
6. Aslit in theseam of agarment.
7. The opening at thebreech of afirearm, through whichfire is communicated to thepowder of thecharge.

   Synonym:touch hole

8. Insteam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
9. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
10. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost. […], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:

      without thevent of words

    • c.1604–1605 (date written),William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iii]:

      Thou didst make tolerablevent of thy travel.

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vent (third-person singular simple presentvents,present participleventing,simple past and past participlevented)

1. (intransitive) To allowgases toescape.

   The stovevents to the outside.

2. (transitive) To allowgases toescape from (asealedspace,container, etc.).
   • 1984,Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, inThe Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland:Naval Institute Press,→ISBN, pages194–195:

     In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room wasvented to the sea. ThePolitovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned. TheAlfa began her last dive.

3. (transitive) To allow toescape through avent.

   Exhaust isvented to the outside.

4. (transitive,intransitive) Toexpress a strong emotion.

   Hevents his anger violently.

   Can we talk? I need tovent.

   • 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others;vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.

   • 2013 June 18,Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, inNew York Times, retrieved21 June 2013:

     But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands andventing their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.

5. Tosnuff; tobreathe orpuff out; tosnort.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym;Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, inThe Shepheardes Calender: […], London:[…] Hugh Singleton, […],→OCLC:

     Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe heventeth into the wynd.

6. (transitive) To determine thesex of (achick) by opening up the anal vent orcloaca.

Clipping ofventriloquism

vent (pluralvents)

1. Ventriloquism.

• vent puppet

FromFrenchvente, fromLatinvendere(“to sell”).

vent (third-person singular simple presentvents,present participleventing,simple past and past participlevented)

1. Tosell; tovend.
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e.,Walter Raleigh],The Historie of the World […], London:[…]William Stansby forWalter Burre, […],→OCLC,(please specify |book=1 to 5):

     Therefore did those nations[…]vent such spice.

FromSpanishventa(“a poor inn, sale, market”).

vent (pluralvents)

1. (obsolete) Abaiting place; aninn.

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vent (pluralvents)

1. (medicine,colloquial)Clipping ofventilationorventilator.

   I have adjusted thevent settings.

vent (third-person singular simple presentvents,present participleventing,simple past and past participlevented)

1. (medicine,colloquial) Toventilate; to use aventilator; to useventilation.

• venting(n.)
• vented(adj.)

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Inherited fromOld Catalanvent, fromLatinventus, fromProto-Italic*wentos, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂wéh₁n̥ts <*h₂weh₁-(“to blow”).

• IPA^(key):(Central)[ˈben]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic,Valencia)[ˈvent]

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vent m (pluralvents)

1. wind (movement of air)
2. (castells) acasteller in thepinya standing between thelaterals, and holding the right leg of onesegon and the left leg of another (primer vent), or a casteller placed behind one of the primers vents

• “vent”, inDiccionari 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”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
• “vent” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vent” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key):[ˈvɛnˀd̥]

vent

1. imperative ofvente

• Rhymes:-ɛnt

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FromMiddle Dutchvent(“hero; man”). Unknown earlier origin. CompareWest Frisianfeint(“servant; fellow; boyfriend”),Low GermanFent(“young fellow”),Saterland FrisianWäänt(“boy, lad”).

• Possibly fromProto-West Germanic*fanþijō(“walker, walking”), fromProto-Indo-European*pent-(“to go, pass”). This would make it related to Dutchvinden(“to find; (archaic) to explore”) and cognate toOld High Germanfendo(“footsoldier”) andOld Englishfēþa(“footsoldier”). The expected descendant in Dutch would have beenvend(e), which existed in Middle Dutch asvende(“pawn in a chess game; farmer”).Final-obstruent devoicing is common in Dutch and was already widespread in Old Dutch, renderingvent as a variant ofvend(e) possible (comparezat).
• Possibly a shortening ofvennoot(“partner (in a company)”), which is equivalent to a compound ofveem(“(storage) company”) +‎genoot(“companion, partner”), but there is no evidence of an overlap in senses.

vent m (pluralventen,diminutiveventje n)

1. chap,fellow

• Afrikaans:vent
• Javindo:fen,fent

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

vent

1. inflection ofventen:
   1. first/second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. imperative

• vènt(ORB, narrow)

Inherited fromLatinventus.

vent m (pluralvents)(ORB, broad)

1. wind

• vent in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• vent in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchvent, fromOld Frenchvent, fromLatinventus, fromProto-Italic*wentos, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂wéh₁n̥ts <*h₂weh₁-(“to blow”).

• (France)IPA^(key):/vɑ̃/
• (Canada)IPA^(key):/vã/

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• Rhymes:-ɑ̃

vent m (pluralvents)

1. wind

   moulin àvent ―windmill

   petite pluie abat grandvent ―a little kindness goes a long way (literally, “a little rain abates a greatwind”)

   rose desvents ―compass rose (literally, “rose of thewinds”)

   qui sème levent récolte la tempête ―who sows thewind harvests the tempest

2. (euphemistic)flatulence

   Synonym:(neutral)pet

3. (uncountable)empty words,hot air

   Synonym:paroles en l’air

   Toutes ces promesses, c’estdu vent. ―Those are empty promises.

4. (slang)

   se prendre unvent ―to be completelyblanked, to receive no answer, to be rebuffed by having one's advances ignored

   mettre unvent à quelqu’un, faire unvent à quelqu’un, foutre unvent à quelqu’un ―to ignore someone, togive someone the cold shoulder, tobrush someone off, todiss someone

   un grosvent, un énormevent ―a blast, a verbal attack or severe reprimand

5. (countable, chiefly in theplural)wind instrument

   Synonym:instrument à vent

• air
• courant

• “vent”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Inherited fromLatinventus.

• (Milanese)IPA^(key):/ˈvɛːnt/

vent m

1. wind

• AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] –map 399: “il vento; i venti” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Arrighi, Cletto (1896)Dizionario milanese-italiano, col repertorio italiano-milanese:[…]‎^[1] (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page800
• Angiolini, Francesco (1897)Vocabolario milanese-italiano coi segni per la pronuncia‎^[2] (in Italian), page903

FromOld Frenchvent, fromLatinventus.

vent m (pluralvensorvents)

1. wind

• French:vent

• vent onDictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

FromOld Frenchvent, fromLatinventus, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂weh₁-(“to blow”).

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vent m (pluralvents)

1. (Jersey,Guernsey)wind
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, inGuernsey Folk Lore‎^[3], page533:

     Vent d'amont qui veur duraïr, au sér va se reposaïr.

     An eastwind that intends to last, goes to rest in the evening.

vent

1. neutersingular ofven

vent

1. imperative ofvente

• IPA^(key):/ʋɛnt/

vent

1. imperative ofventa

• IPA^(key):/ʋɛnt/

vent (definite singular and pluralvente)

1. pastparticiple ofvenna

vent

1. neutersingular ofvend

vent

1. supine ofvenna

• IPA^(key):/ʋeːnt/

vent

1. neutersingular ofven

FromOld Occitanvent, fromLatinventus.

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vent m (pluralvents)

1. wind(movement of air)

Inherited fromLatinventus.

• (archaic)IPA^(key):/ˈvent/
• (classical)IPA^(key):/ˈvant/
• Rhymes:-ent

ventoblique singular, m (oblique pluralvenzorventz,nominative singularvenzorventz,nominative pluralvent)

1. wind(movement of air)
   • c.1110, Benedeit,Le Voyage de saint Brandan:

     Un meis sanzvent nagerent tut plein

     They sailed for a whole month without wind

• Bourguignon:vant
• → English:vent
• Middle French:vent
  • French:vent
• Norman:vent
• Walloon:vint

Fromvent d'aval:

• → Galician:vendaval
• → Portuguese:vendaval
• → Spanish:vendaval

Inherited fromLatinventus.

vent m

1. wind