verb/e.vɑ̃.te/
to air, ventilate (expose to the air); to fan; to expose to the wind; to expose, to reveal; to go off, go stale, go flat
“éventer un secret”
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *exventāre, from Latin ventus (“wind”). By surface analysis, é- + vent + -er. Compare Occitan esventar.