Where does “Advent calendar” come from?
Advent calendar (English) comes from German Adventskalender, from German Advent, from Middle High German advent, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
Advent calendar (English): A calendar used to count down the days of Advent, having windows revealing a hidden picture or gift on each day
Definitions
- A calendar used to count down the days of Advent, having windows revealing a hidden picture or gift on each day
Ancestry of “Advent calendar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Adventskalender | Advent calendar |
| 2 | German | Advent | Advent |
| 3 | Middle High German | advent | Advent |
| 4 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 5 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |