Etymology

ventifact

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Today it means: A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand. Full definition →

French vent ← Latin ventus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromventus
  2. French · derived fromvent
  3. English todayventifact

Blend of vent (“wind”) + artifact (“an object shaped or created by some process or agency”) from French vent from Latin ventus

Words from the same roots

Latinventus all →

ventabat-ventsubventaneous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.