Where does “adventure” come from?
Adventure comes from Middle English aventuren, from Old French aventure, derived from Latin advenire, composed of the prefix ad- meaning "to" and venire meaning "to come."
adventure (English): The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in...
Definitions
- The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in...
Ancestry of “adventure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | aventure | fate, chance; event, experience; danger, risk |
| 2 | Old French | aventure | event, happening, adventure |
| 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 |