ventus – Latin noun declension

Noun: ventus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Second, Fourth

Nominative

Singular	ventus
Plural	ventī; ventūs

Genitive

Singular	ventī; ventūs
Plural	ventōrum; ventuum

Dative

Singular	ventō; ventuī
Plural	ventīs; ventibus

Accusative

Singular	ventum
Plural	ventōs; ventūs

Ablative

Singular	ventō; ventū
Plural	ventīs; ventibus

Vocative

Singular	vente; ventus
Plural	ventī; ventūs

Sample Sentences

[...] Omnis et ūna / dīlāpsus calor, atque in ventōs vīta recessit.
And all at once her warmth faded away, and her life receded into the winds.
(The death of Dido; the conclusion of Book 4. See the notes by Page, T.E., [1967], pg. 394: “‘Life,’ ‘breath,’ ‘spirit,’ anima, ἄνεμος are so closely connected in human speech that poets naturally speak of life passing ‘into the winds.’”) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.704-705]
Homō sapiēns nōn ūrīnat in ventum (A wise man pisseth not against the wind) [Inscription, The Crown 2016–2023]
Mōta dea est operīque favet: nāvālibus exit (The goddess is moved and she favors the work: my ship is leaving the docks, already my sails have their winds.

(Inspiration returns as, metaphorically, the poet and his readers sail onward. Idiomatically, Ovid ‘‘has found his second wind’’ while writing the fourth book of the Fasti.)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.729–730]

Nouns inflected like ventus

subditus, subiectus, pūnctus, nātus, fīcus, fūsus, sonus, cupressus, cypressus, conductus, cestus, cornus, candidātus, pactus, ventus, rattus, spīnus,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Proto-Italic *wentos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
2. Cognate and synonymous with English wind, Sanskrit वात॑ (vā́ta), Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀 (vāta), and Ancient Greek ᾰ̓είς (ăeís). See also Latin vannus, from the same PIE root. See: English Nouns 'wind', Latin Nouns 'vannus'.

Verbs referencing "ventus"

Asturian Nouns ventana, Portuguese Nouns ventana, Spanish Nouns ventana, English Nouns wind, Old English Nouns wind, English Nouns vent, Catalan Nouns vent, French Nouns vent, English Nouns fan, Galician Nouns vento, Italian Nouns vento, Old Portuguese Nouns vento, Portuguese Nouns vento, Spanish Nouns viento, Latin Nouns vannus, Galician Nouns venta, Portuguese Nouns venta, German Nouns Ventil, English Nouns abat-vent, Gothic Nouns 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃, Galician Nouns ventá, Romanian Nouns vânt, Asturian Nouns vientu, Portuguese Nouns ventã, Old Portuguese Nouns ventãa, Polish Nouns wentyl, Hungarian Nouns szelep.