ventre

See also: Ventre

English

Verb

ventre (third-person singular simple present ventres, present participle ventring, simple past and past participle ventred)

1. Obsolete form of venture (“to hazard, risk”).

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ventrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈben.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈven.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈven.tɾe]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

ventre m (plural ventres)

1. (anatomy) belly, abdomen
2. (anatomy) womb
3. (anatomy) the fleshy part of a muscle

   ventre de la cama ― calf of the leg

4. (figurative) the lower part of something; underside

   El sol daura el ventre dels núvols. ― The sun gilded the underside of the clouds.

Derived terms

• ventrada
• ventreblanc
• ventrell
• ventrenegre
• ventrera
• ventrut

 

Related terms

• ventral
• ventresca

 

Further reading

• “ventre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ventre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ventre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ventre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ventre, from Old French ventre, from Latin ventrem, from Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃tʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

ventre m (plural ventres)

1. belly
2. (physics) antinode

Derived terms

• à plat ventre
• avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre
• avoir une brique dans le ventre
• danse du ventre
• le ventre vide
• papillons dans le ventre
• ventre à pattes
• ventre à terre
• ventre mou
• ventre sur pattes

 

Related terms

• ventral
• ventrée
• ventrière
• ventriloquie
• ventripotent
• ventru

 

See also

• estomac
• panse

Further reading

• “ventre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rêvent, venter

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ventre, from Latin venter, ventrem, from Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛntɾe/ [ˈbɛn̪.t̪ɾɪ], /ˈbentɾe/ [ˈben̪.t̪ɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɛntɾe, -entɾe

Noun

ventre m (plural ventres)

1. (anatomy) belly, abdomen, groin
   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, page 337:

     que vira ao dito Johán, ome do dito prouisor, jaser ençima da dita Tareija do Tyollo et ela que tiña as pernas encrusilladas, descobertas, en çima fasta o ventre, ben brancas, et el que pona en ela as pernas e as maaos por las abryr et non podía, et por que as non quería abrir, que lle daba bofetadas et ela, descabellada, jasendo en terra, et disendo "Ay del Rey, ay del Rey".

     that he saw said Xoán, man of the provisor, lying over said Tareixa do Tiollo; and that she had her legs crossed and naked up to her belly and very white; and that he was putting his hands and legs on her for opening them but couldn't; and that because she didn't want to that he was slapping her, who were disheveled, lying in the ground and saying "Help! Help!".

   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 340:

     et que, yndo él fogindo, lle lançara duas lanças e hua que lle dera por lo braço e llo pasara et a outra que lle puxeran por lle dar por lo ventre, et que, quando a vira vir, que a tomara por lo ferro, viindo por lo ayre, et que cortara a maao

     and that while he was fleeing he was thrown two spears, one that hit him in the arm and pierced it and another that was thrown to hit his belly, but that he, when he saw it coming, took it by the spearhead, while coming through the air, and it cut his hand

2. (anatomy) stomach
3. (anatomy) womb
4. pregnancy

Derived terms

• desventrar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ventre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ventre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ventre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ventre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “ventre”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ventrem, from Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.tre/, /ˈven.tre/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛntre, -entre
• Hyphenation: vèn‧tre, vén‧tre

Noun

ventre m (plural ventri)

1. abdomen, midriff, belly, stomach
2. womb

Derived terms

• sventrare

Related terms

• ventrale

Further reading

• ventre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

ventre

1. ablative singular of venter

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ventre, from Latin venter, ventrem.

Noun

ventre m (plural ventres)

1. belly; stomach (ventral area)

Descendants

• French: ventre

Norman

Alternative forms

• vãtr (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French ventre, from Latin venter, ventrem.

Noun

ventre m (plural ventres)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) belly, stomach

Synonyms

• dare (continental Normandy)
• (belly): bielle f (Jersey)

Derived terms

• ventrée (“bellyful”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan ventre, from Latin venter.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Noun

ventre m (plural ventres)

1. (anatomy) belly, ventral side

Derived terms

• ventrada
• ventresca

Old French

Alternative forms

• vantre

Etymology

From Latin venter, ventrem.

Noun

ventre oblique singular, m (oblique plural ventres, nominative singular ventres, nominative plural ventre)

1. belly; stomach (ventral area)

Descendants

• Middle French: ventre
  • French: ventre
• Norman: ventre, vãtr
• Walloon: vinte

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin venter, ventrem, from Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβen.tɾe/

Noun

ventre m

1. (anatomy) The belly, abdomen, stomach
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 368 (facsimile):

     [C]omo […] ſ(ant)a M(aria) do porto guariu ũa moller dũa coobra que tragia eno uentre

     (H)ow Holy Mary of Porto cured a woman of a snake she had in her belly

2. The womb
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 184 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou de morte ũu Menynno que iazia no uentre da madre

     This is how Holy Mary saved from death a little boy who laid in his mother's womb

Descendants

• Galician: ventre
• Portuguese: ventre

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin venter, ventrem.

Noun

ventre m (oblique plural ventres, nominative singular ventres, nominative plural ventre)

1. belly; stomach (ventral area)

Descendants

• Occitan: ventre, vente

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ventre, from Latin ventrem, from Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɾe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvẽ.tɾɨ/

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

• Hyphenation: ven‧tre

Noun

ventre m (plural ventres)

1. belly, abdomen, stomach

   Synonyms: barriga, pança, abdómen, estômago

2. womb

   Synonyms: madre, seio, útero

Derived terms

• alto-ventre
• baixo-ventre

Further reading

• “ventre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024