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venter

venter · m

the belly

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 9 · 15.23/10k
De Medicina 108 · 10.54/10k
Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Captivi 7 · 8.09/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 30 · 6.85/10k
Saturae 3 · 6.63/10k
Curculio 4 · 6.49/10k
Stichus 4 · 6.44/10k
Persa 5 · 6.36/10k
Saturae 14 · 5.63/10k

Densest 12 of 110 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. venter — Lewis & Short

venter, tris, m.perh. for gventer; cf. Gr. gasth/r; Sanscr. gatharas.

I Lit.

A In gen., the belly (syn.: alvus, abdomen), Plin. 11, 37, 82. § 207; Cels. 7, 16; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 4; Cic. Div 2, 58, 119.— Plur., Mart. 13, 26, 1; Plin. 9, 50, 74, § 157. —

B In partic., as the seat of the stomach, conveying the accessory idea of greediness, gormandizing, the paunch, maw: Cyclopis venter, velut olim turserat alte, Carnibus humanis distentus, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 326 Vahl.); Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 33: ventri operam dare, id. Ps. 1, 2, 43; id. Pers. 1, 3, 18; Hor. S. 1, 6, 128; 2, 8, 5; id. Ep. 1, 15, 32; Juv. 3, 167; 11, 40: proin tu tui cottidiani victi ventrem ad me adferas, i. e. an appetite for ordinary food, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 75: vivite lurcones, comedones, vivite ventres, ye maws, for ye gluttons, gormandizers, Lucil. ap. Non. 11, 8.—In partic.: ventrem facere, to have a passage at stool, Veg. Vet. 3, 57.—

II Transf.

A The womb: homines in ventre necandos Conducit, Juv. 6, 596.—

2 The fruit of the womb, fœtus: ignorans nurum ventrem ferre, Liv 1, 34, 2; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 19; Col. 6, 24, 2; Dig. 5, 4, 3; 25, 6, 1; 37, 9, 1, § 13; 29, 2, 30; Ov. M. 11, 311; Hor. Epod. 17, 50.—

B The bowels, entrails, Col. 9, 14, 6; Plin. 11, 20, 23, § 70.—

C Of any thing that swells or bellies out, a belly, i. e. a swelling, protuberance: tumidoque cucurbita ventre, Prop. 4, 2, 23 (5, 2, 43); Verg. G. 4, 122: lagonae, Juv. 12, 60: concavus tali, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255: parietis, Dig. 8, 5, 17: aquae ductus, Vitr. 8, 7.

2. venter — Walde–Hofmann

venter, -fris m. „Bauch; Fötus“, technisch v. parietis, v. aquae ductüs (seit Enn., Plaut, Cato, rom.), ventriculus (-er-), -i m. „Herzkammer, Magen, Báuchlein* ; vlat. und rom, auch , Wade* (Claud. . Mam.; s. Goldberger Cl. 18, 37, M. L. Wagner, Stud. 107. 154; vgl. gr. Yadtpokviimov) (seit Cic.; ventriculösus Cael Aur., ebenso ventrieulätiö; ventriculo, -äre Gl.; ventricellus : xoudbiov GL, rom.), ventriösus, -a, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. venter, p. 1659]

In the wild

ventre Celsus, De Medicina 2.7.p2
ventribus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.14
ventris Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 32
venter Ovid, Fasti 3.42
ventrem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.89.22
ventre Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.6.128

6 of 629 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uenter (scan p. 745; entry #12440).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. venter (scan pp. 1659-1661; entry #3186). Root candidates: *uent-, *gunstr-, *geuad-.

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