venta

See also: ventá and ventã

English

Etymology

From Spanish venta.

Noun

venta (plural ventas)

1. A roadside inn in Spain.

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbenta/, [ˈbẽn̪.t̪a]

Noun

venta f (plural ventes)

1. sale (exchange of goods or services for currency or credit)

Related terms

• vender

Catalan

Verb

venta

1. inflection of ventar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Esperanto

Etymology

From vento +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈventa]
• Rhymes: -enta
• Hyphenation: ven‧ta

Adjective

venta

1. windy

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

venta

1. third-person singular past historic of venter

Anagrams

• Avent, navet, vante, vanté

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Vulgar Latin *ventana, derived from Latin ventus. Compare Portuguese ventã, Spanish ventana. Doublet of ventá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈben.tɐ]

Noun

venta f (plural ventas)

1. nostril, especially of livestock

   Synonyms: narno, ventá

   • 1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:

     Xâ me bas inchando as bentas. Fariña e[u] nome enfado, senon que digo as verdades

     You are swelling my nostrils. Fariña, I don't get mad, instead, I tell the truths

   • 1891, José Barral Campos, O amigo de S. Pedro:

     Dimpois de comer dúas cuncas de caldo, deitouse na cama, sacou da faltrica do chaleque dous cigarros e unha navalla e liando un pito, púxose a fumegar polas ventas das narices, o mesmo có tren.

     After eating two bowls of broth he laid down on the bed; he took two cigars and a pocket knife from the vest's pocket and, rolling a cigarette, began to throw smoke by the nostrils, not unlike a train

Derived terms

• aventar

References

• “uentaas” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “venta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “venta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “venta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

venta

1. inflection of ventar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ventet

Verb

venta

1. past indicative of vente
2. past participle of vente

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• vente

Etymology

From Old Norse vænta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɛntɑ/
• (Trøndelag) IPA^(key): /ʋɛɲc/

Verb

venta (present tense ventar, past tense venta, past participle venta, passive infinitive ventast, present participle ventande, imperative venta/vent)

1. wait

   Lat oss venta eit par sekund til.

   Let's wait a couple of seconds more.

2. expect

   Kva ventar du å få ut av dette?

   What do you expect to get out of this?

References

• “venta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.ta/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbẽ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: ven‧ta

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Latin *ventāna, from Latin ventus (“wind”). Cognate with Galician ventá and Spanish ventana. Doublet of ventã and ventana.

Noun

venta f (plural ventas)

1. nostril, especially of livestock

   Synonym: narina

Related terms

• vento

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

venta

1. third-person singular present indicative of ventar

References

• “venta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “venta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “venta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vēndita, feminine of the perfect passive participle of the verb vēndō (“to sell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbenta/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: ven‧ta

Noun

venta f (plural ventas)

1. sale

   Pone a la venta por 100.000 dólares su casa.

   He's putting his house up for sale for 100,000 dollars.

   Ya está en venta.

   It's already up for sale.

   Estaba de venta online.

   It was on sale online.

2. sales (all goods sold in a given time period)
3. roadside inn in Spain

Derived terms

• autoventa
• carta de venta
• en venta
• impuesto a la venta de los bienes y servicios
• posventa
• ser una venta
• televenta
• venta al por mayor
• venta al por menor
• ventero

 

Related terms

• vender

 

Further reading

• “venta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014