ventus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwen.tus/, [ˈwɛn.tʊs]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognate with English wind. See also Latin vannus, Ancient Greek ἄημι (áēmi).

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *gʷentos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥tós. Surface analysis is the perfect passive participle of veniō.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Italic *gʷentus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷém-tu-s, from *gʷem-.

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)
• ventus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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)
    
  • (ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
    
• ventus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers