Etymology

ventripotent

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Today it means: Having a big belly. Full definition →

Middle French ventripotent ← Latin venter
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromventer“belly”
  2. Middle French · derived fromventripotent
  3. English todayventripotent

From Middle French ventripotent, from Latin venter (“belly”) + potens (“powerful”).

Words from the same roots

Latinventer all →

venterventri-ventrum

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.