Venta

Borrowed from Lithuanian Ventà.

Venta

1. A city in Šiauliai, Lithuania.

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛn.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛn.ta]

Venta f (genitive Ventae); first declension

1. the name of several towns of Britannia, modern England

First-declension noun.

• Venta Belgārum
• Venta Icēnōrum
• Venta Silurum

• Isca

• “Venta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• IPA^(key): [ˈvǣnta]

Vȩñta f (4th declension)

1. a river in Latvia

• Ventspils

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Ventà f (demonym venti̇̀škis, female demonym venti̇̀škė) stress pattern 1

1. Venta (a city in Šiauliai County, Lithuania)

• “Venta” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija [Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia]