vent

• n.（感情の）はけ口を与える；出口；通気口
• vt.気持ちのはけ口を作る；吐き出す；穴をあける
• vi.（排泄などで）圧力を逃がす
• n. （ヴェント）人の名前；（ドイツ語）フェント；（英語、チェコ語、フィンランド語）ヴェンター

ラテン語のventus「換気」から、語源は風と同じ、派生語は出口、通気口。

vent

vent: English has two words vent. The verb, ‘provide with an outlet’ [14], came via Old French esventer from Vulgar Latin *exventāre ‘let out air’. This was a compound verb formed from the Latin prefix ex- ‘out’ and ventum ‘wind’ (source also of English ventilate [15] and distantly related to English wind). Vent ‘slit in the back of a garment’ [15] goes back via Old French fente to Vulgar Latin *findita ‘slit’, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin findere ‘split’ (source also of English fission [19] and fissure [14]).
=> ventilate, wind; fission, fissure

vent (v.)

late 14c., "emit from a confined space," probably a shortening of aventer "expose oneself to the air" (c. 1300), from Old French eventer "let out, expose to air," from Vulgar Latin *exventare, from Latin ex- "out" + ventus "wind" (see wind (n.1)). Sense of "express freely" first recorded 1590s. Sense of "divulge, publish" (1590s) is behind phrase vent one's spleen (see spleen). Related: Vented; venting.

vent (n.)

c. 1400, "anus," from Old French vent from verb eventer (see vent (v.)) and in part from Middle English aventer, from the French verb. Perhaps also merged with or influenced by Middle English fent "opening or slit in a the front of a garment (usually held closed with a brooch)," c. 1400, from Old French fente, from Latin findere "to split" (see fissure). Meaning "outlet for water," also "air hole, breathing hole" is from mid-15c. Meaning "action of venting" is recorded from c. 1500.

1. Leave a vent open to let some moist air escape.

通気口を開き、湿気を少し逃がす。

2.He squatted on the floor and gave vent to a deep sigh.

彼は床にしゃがんで、深くため息をついた。

3.The cabby gave vent to an angry shout.

タクシーの運転手は怒って怒鳴った。

4.She gave vent to her anger and jealousy.

彼女は自分の怒りと嫉妬をぶちまけた。

5.His hostility to the woman found vent in a sharp remark.

彼はあの女への敵意を辛辣な言葉で発散した。