Noun: venta
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | venta |
| Plural f | ventas |
Sample Sentences
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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) [1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:]
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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 lay 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.) [1891, José Barral Campos, O amigo de S. Pedro:]
Nouns inflected like venta
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Vulgar Latin *ventana, derived from Latin ventus. Compare Portuguese ventã, Spanish ventana. Doublet of ventá. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
ventãa', Old Portuguese Nouns '
ventãa', Latin Nouns '
ventus', Portuguese Nouns '
ventã', Spanish Nouns '
ventana'.
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