(adjective) : ventōsus, a, um, ventus
* Full of wind, windy.
* Lit.: folles,Verg. A. 8, 449: loca,Lucr. 6, 468: speluncae,id. 6, 537: mare,Hor. C. 3, 4, 46: aequora,Verg. A. 6, 335; Ov. H. 16 (17), 5: Alpes,id. Am. 2, 16, 19: dies,Quint. 11, 3, 27; Col. 11, 2, 78: murmur,Verg. E. 9, 58: auctumnus, hiems,Plin. 18, 35, 80, § 352: alae,Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 5; Verg. A. 12, 848: concha,i. e. the tuba,Luc. 9, 349: cucurbita,i. e. cupping - glass,Juv. 14, 58; cf. Isid. Orig. 4, 11: ictus,Val. Fl. 2, 269.—Comp.: Germania,Tac. G. 5.— Sup.: regio,Liv. 36, 43, 1: uter,App. Mag. p. 309, 36.
* Transf., like the wind, i. e. light, quick, speedy, swift, nimble (poet.): equi,Ov. F. 4, 392; cf.: mens cervorum,Lucr. 3, 299.
* Trop.
* Light, changeable, inconstant, fickle: Lepidus homo ventosissimus, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 9, 1: Romae Tibur amem ventosus, Tibure Romam,Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 12: tu levis es multoque tuis ventosior alis (of Cupid),Ov. Am. 2, 9, 49: plebs,Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 37: ingenium,Liv. 42, 30, 4: extraordinarium imperium populare atque ventosum est,Cic. Phil. 11, 7, 17.
* Windy, puffed up, vain, conceited, empty: superbiebat ventosa et insolens natio, quod, etc.,Plin. Pan. 31, 2: ventosus et mendax vanitate,Sen. Ira, 3, 8, 4: gloria,Verg. A. 11, 708; cf.: ventoso gloria curru,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 177: lingua,Verg. A. 11, 390: decus (opp. verus honor),Stat. Th. 10, 711: ventosa et enormis loquacitas,inflated, bombastic,Petr. 2.—* Adv.: ventōsē, as if full of wind, inflatedly: tumentes pulvilli,App. M. 10, p. 248, 22.