ventilare: aeri, caelo aliquid exponere (to expose to the air): ventulum facere alicui (as by fanning; Terentianus): To ventilate a room, aerem immittere in conclave; cubiculi fenestras patefacere sic ut perflatus aliquis accedat (after Cels., 3, 19); perflatum in cubiculum totis admittere fenestris (after Ov., A.A., 3, 807, and Plin., 17, 19, 31).