Where does “avonturier” come from?
avonturier (Dutch) comes from French aventurier, from French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
avonturier (Dutch): adventurer
Definitions
- adventurer
Ancestry of “avonturier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | aventurier | adventurous; adventurer |
| 2 | French | aventure | adventure; venture; affair |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 5 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 6 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |