ventripotent
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French ventripotent, from Latin venter (“belly”) + potens (“powerful”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ventripotent (comparative more ventripotent, superlative most ventripotent)
- Having a big belly.
- 1694, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Pantagruel, Book LIX, (chapter title):
- Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how, and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent [translating ventripotent] god.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 714:
- The reception committee consisted of Constance and a ventripotent Swiss banker, representing the Red Cross [...].
- Gluttonous.
Translations edit
Gluttonous
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adjective edit
ventripotent (feminine ventripotente, masculine plural ventripotents, feminine plural ventripotentes)
- having a big belly, ventripotent
Further reading edit
- “ventripotent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ventripotent.
Adjective edit
ventripotent m or n (feminine singular ventripotentă, masculine plural ventripotenți, feminine and neuter plural ventripotente)
Declension edit
Declension of ventripotent
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | ventripotent | ventripotentă | ventripotenți | ventripotente | ||
definite | ventripotentul | ventripotenta | ventripotenții | ventripotentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | ventripotent | ventripotente | ventripotenți | ventripotente | ||
definite | ventripotentului | ventripotentei | ventripotenților | ventripotentelor |
References edit
- ventripotent in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN