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.
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:[…]
Insteam 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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, inRolling Stone[1]:
“They won’t shut the fuck up about it,” Trump privatelyvented — referring to conservative influencers and media types lashing out over the Epstein memo — according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
2020 September 24, Jen Rothery, “Among Us 2: everything we know about the sequel”, inPCGamesN[2], Bath, Somerset: Network N Media, archived fromthe original on18 September 2020:
We suspect they’vevented to medbay and are intending to use some kind of surgical tools to ‘upgrade’ the original Among Us with a bunch of cool new features and levels, instead of starting over from scratch with the sequel.
“Among Us” has become ingrained into Generation Z’s culture in such a way that phrases such as “yellow is sus,” “purplevented” or “skip vote” are part of our daily vernacular.
2022 June 9, Kris Holt, “‘Among Us VR’ Trailer Shows First-Person Tasks, Venting And Emergency Meetings”, inForbes[4], Jersey City, N.J.: Forbes Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on9 June 2022:
When you’reventing as an impostor, you’ll be able to peer through the grille to see who’s passing by.
(castells) acasteller in thepinya standing between thelaterals, and bracing the right leg of onesegon and the left leg of another (primer vent), or a casteller placed behind one of theprimers vents (segon (tercer, etc.)vent)
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.
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:[…][5] (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page800
Angiolini, Francesco (1897),Vocabolario milanese-italiano coi segni per la pronuncia[6] (in Italian), page903
