ventura
See also: Ventura
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /venˈtu.ra/
- Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: ven‧tù‧ra
Etymology 1
From Latin ventūra (“the things that will come”, i.e. “the future”), neuter plural form of ventūrus (“which will come”), future active participle of veniō (“to come, approach”).
Noun
ventura f (plural venture)
- destiny, fate, chance
- c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 19–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- mentre ch’io era a Virgilio congiunto
su per lo monte che l’anime cura
e discendendo nel mondo defunto,
dette mi fuor di mia vita futura
parole gravi, avvegna ch’io mi senta
ben tetragono ai colpi di ventura- While I was with Virgilius conjoined upon the mountain that the souls doth heal, and when descending into the dead world, were spoken to me of my future life some grievous words; although I feel myself in sooth foursquare against the blows of chance
- (archaic) chance, coincidence, accident
- Synonym: caso
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 91–93; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- E io a lui: «Qual forza o qual ventura
ti travïò sì fuor di Campaldino,
che non si seppe mai tua sepultura?».- And I to him: "What violence or what chance led thee astray so far from Campaldino, that never has thy sepulture been known?"
- fortune, chance, luck
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- ventura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Participle
ventūra
- inflection of ventūrus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
References
- ventura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛnˈtuː.ra/
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- ventüra
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛŋˈtyra/
Noun
ventura f (plural venture)
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
- vẽtura (obsolete, abbreviation)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ventura, from Latin ventūra.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vẽˈtu.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vẽˈtu.ɾa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vẽˈtu.ɾɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /bẽˈtu.ɾɐ/
- Hyphenation: ven‧tu‧ra
Noun
ventura f (plural venturas)
- fortune, chance, luck
- Synonyms: acaso, fortuna, sorte
- Synonym: desventura
- happiness
- Synonym: felicidade
- venture
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin ventūra (“the things that will come, i.e. the future”), neuter plural form of ventūrus (“which will come”), future active participle of veniō (“to come, approach”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /benˈtuɾa/ [bẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: ven‧tu‧ra
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “ventura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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