ventose

See also: ventôse and Ventôse

English

Noun

ventose (plural ventoses)

Alternative spelling of ventouse
- 1603, Plutarch, “Platoniqve Questions”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, question 6, page 1022:
  [I]t commeth at length to fall upon the fleſh which the ventoſe ſticketh faſt unto, and by heating and inchafing, it expreſſeth the humor that is within, into the ventoſe or cupping veſſel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ventose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

voteens

Italian

Adjective

ventose

feminine plural of ventoso

Noun

ventose f

plural of ventosa

Anagrams

sovente

Latin

Adjective

ventōse

vocative masculine singular of ventōsus

References

“ventose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ventose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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