Venter, ventris, m. g. Plin. The belly or paunch. Venter.Iuuen.The stomacke.Fluxiones ventris sistere. Plin. To stay flixes.Fluor ventris. Cels. The flixe or laxe.Inflatio ventris. Col. Orificia ventris, Vde ORIFICIVM.Proluuies ventris fœdissima.Virg.Rabies improba ventris.Virg.Greate and greedie hunger.Solutiones ventris. Plin. Vitium ventris. Cic. Albus venter. Pers. Astrictus. Cels. The bellie bounde that one can not got to the stoole.Auarus. Hor. An vnsatiable bellie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.