| 1 | Middle English | avancement | — |
| 2 | Old French | avancement | advantage |
| 3 | Old French | avancier | to advance; to move forward; to advance; to... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | abanteare | present active infinitive of *abanteō;... |
| 5 | Latin | ab ante | — |
| 6 | Latin | ante | before, in front, forwards; before; before,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κλίσις | bending, inclination; a lying down; a place for... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -τις | Earlier form of -σις , retained after dentals δ,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |