ventripotent

English

WOTD – 13 February 2012

From Middle French ventripotent, from Latin venter (“belly”) + potens (“powerful”).

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.
- 2008, A. C. Kemp, The Perfect Insult for Every Occasion, →ISBN, page 198:
  I'm sure your being so ventripotent is useful in county fair competitions, George, but it's driving our bakery into the ground, so we're replacing you.

Having a big belly

Gluttonous

Portrait d’un homme ventripotent.

ventripotent (feminine ventripotente, masculine plural ventripotents, feminine plural ventripotentes)

ventripotent m or n (feminine singular ventripotentă, masculine plural ventripotenți, feminine and neuter plural ventripotente)

Declension of ventripotent

ventripotent in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN