VENT Copy link • VENT 1. s. Admission of air, aditus aeris. A vent-hole, spiraculum (Plin.); spiramentum (Vitr.): to give vent to (PROP.) = to admit air, ventilare (e.g., vinum; aditum aeris admittere; also, aperire caelum (Plin.): = to let out, rei viam aperire; (figuratively) erumpere: I must give vent to my joy, erumpere licet mihi gaudium (Terentianus): to give vent to one’s hatred, odium expromere or effundere (against anybody, in aliquem); odium dictis factisque explere: to give vent to one’s ill humor, displeasure, stomachum in aliquem erumpere; dolor meus in aliquem incursat: to give vent to one’s anger (against anyone), iram in aliquem effundere, evomere, erumpere; at a thing, iram in rem vertere; in rem saevire: not to give vent to one’s anger, iram supprimere or reprimere: to one’s hatred, odium sorbere (litterally, to swallow it). Sale, market, venditio mercium. A good or quick vent, *facilis et expedita venditio mercium: to find a good vent, *facile vendi: to find no vent, *repudiari: that has a good vent, vendibilis (opposed to invendibilis). 2. v. Vid: “to give vent to,” under the substantive.