vent

(castells) a casteller in the pinya standing between the laterals, and holding the right leg of one segon and the left leg of another (primer vent), or a casteller placed behind one of the primers vents

Inherited from Old Catalan vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).


vent

nl-noun

vent m (plural venten, diminutive ventje n)

venten (plural)
ventje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: vent

Javindo: fen, fent

From Middle Dutch vent (“hero; man”). Unknown earlier origin. Compare West Frisian feint (“servant; fellow; boyfriend”), Low German Fent (“young fellow”), Saterland Frisian Wäänt (“boy, lad”).
* Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *fanþijō (“walker, walking”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass”). This would make it related to Dutch vinden (“to find; (archaic) to explore”) and cognate to Old High German fendo (“footsoldier”) and Old English fēþa (“footsoldier”). The expected descendant in Dutch would have been vend(e), which existed in Middle Dutch as vende (“pawn in a chess game; farmer”). Final-obstruent devoicing is common in Dutch and was already widespread in Old Dutch, rendering vent as a variant of vend(e) possible (compare zat).
* Possibly a shortening of vennoot (“partner (in a company)”), which is equivalent to a compound of veem (“(storage) company”) + genoot (“companion, partner”), but there is no evidence of an overlap in senses.


vent

first/second/third-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


vent

the vent of a cask; the vent of a mould

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

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 122:

An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.

Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

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 narrovv Vent: […]

1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 41:

An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.

A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.

The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.

The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.

In steam 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.

without the vent of words

1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel.

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

отвор

an opening through which gases, especially air, can pass

jícen

an opening in a volcano from which lava flows

kloaka

the excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates

Partly from Middle French vent, from Latin ventus and partly from French éventer. Cognate with French vent and Spanish viento (“wind”) and ventana (“window”). Doublet of wind.


vent

The stove vents to the outside.

(intransitive) To allow gases to escape.

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 was vented to the sea. The Politovskiy's largest compartment filled rapidly with water. This destroyed what little reserve buoyancy the ship had, and the acute down-angle returned. The Alfa began her last dive.

1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, pages 194–195:

(transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).

Exhaust is vented to the outside.

(transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.

He vents his anger violently.

Can we talk? I need to vent.

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.

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

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

2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21:

(transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.

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

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

(transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.

en-verb

vent (third-person singular simple present vents, present participle venting, simple past and past participle vented)

vents (present singular third-person)
venting (participle present)
vented (participle past)
vented (past)


vent

Therefore did those nations […]vent such spice.

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

From French vente, from Latin vendere (“to sell”).


vent

From Spanish venta (“a poor inn, sale, market”).


vent

I have adjusted the vent settings.

(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.


vent

(medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.


vent

moulin à vent

petite pluie abat grand vent

a little kindness goes a long way (literally, “a little rain abates a great wind”)

rose des vents

compass rose (literally, “rose of the winds”)

qui sème le vent récolte la tempête

Toutes ces promesses, c’est du vent.

se prendre un vent

to be completely blanked, to receive no answer, to be rebuffed by having one's advances ignored

mettre un vent à quelqu’un, faire un vent à quelqu’un, foutre un vent à quelqu’un

to ignore someone, to give someone the cold shoulder, to brush someone off, to diss someone

un gros vent, un énorme vent

a blast, a verbal attack or severe reprimand

(countable, chiefly in the plural) wind instrument

Inherited from Middle French vent, from Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).


vent

French: vent

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus.


vent

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

1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 533:

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

r'aver san vent

to get one's breath back, get one's wind back

From Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).


vent

head

vent (definite singular and plural vente)


vent

From Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus.


vent

Un meis sanz vent nagerent tut plein

c. 1110, Benedeit, Le Voyage de saint Brandan:

They sailed for a whole month without wind

fro-noun

vent oblique singular, m (oblique plural venz or ventz, nominative singular venz or ventz, nominative plural vent)

vent oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
venz (oblique plural)
ventz (oblique plural)
venz (nominative singular)
ventz (nominative singular)
vent (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: vant

→ English: vent

Middle French: vent
French: vent

Norman: vent

Walloon: vint

→ Galician: vendaval

→ Portuguese: vendaval

→ Spanish: vendaval