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ventris

ventris is a Latin form of venter, meaning “stomach, belly; womb”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 60 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 44: … ries reperietur, nulli sumptus, nullum aes alienum, nulla conviviorum ac lustrorum libido. quod quidem vitium ventris et gurgitis non modo non minuit aetas hominibus sed etiam auget. amores autem et deliciae quae vocantur, quae …

Suetonius, Divus Claudius 32.1: … diem posterum calicem fictilem apposuit. dicitur etiam meditatus edictum, quo ueniam daret flatum crepitumque uentris in conuiuio emittendi, cum periclitatum quendam prae pudore ex continentia repperisset.

Martial, Epigrammata 1.37.1: Ventris onus misero, nec te pudet, excipis auro,

All forms of venter (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.