ventosus

Latin

Etymology

From ventus (“wind”) ‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯enˈtoː.sus/, [u̯ɛn̪ˈt̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /venˈto.sus/, [ven̪ˈt̪ɔːs̬us]

Adjective

ventōsus (feminine ventōsa, neuter ventōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. windy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ventōsus	ventōsa	ventōsum		ventōsī	ventōsae	ventōsa
genitive	ventōsī	ventōsae	ventōsī		ventōsōrum	ventōsārum	ventōsōrum
dative	ventōsō	ventōsae	ventōsō		ventōsīs
accusative	ventōsum	ventōsam	ventōsum		ventōsōs	ventōsās	ventōsa
ablative	ventōsō	ventōsā	ventōsō		ventōsīs
vocative	ventōse	ventōsa	ventōsum		ventōsī	ventōsae	ventōsa

Related terms

• ventus
• cucurbita ventōsa

Descendants

• Aromanian: vimtos, vimtosu, vintos, vintosu
• Catalan: ventós
• English: Ventôse, ventouse
• French: venteux, ventouse
• Galician: ventoso
• Greek: βεντούζα (ventoúza)
• Italian: ventoso, ventosa
• Occitan: ventós
• Piedmontese: ventos
• Portuguese: ventoso, ventosa
• Romanian: vântos
• Sardinian: bentosu, vintosu
• Sicilian: vintusu
• Spanish: ventoso, ventosa
• Venetan: ventoso, ventosa

References

• “ventosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ventosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ventosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ventosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.