Where does “adventurement” come from?
adventurement (English) comes from English adventure, from Middle English aventure, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad- — in.
adventurement (English): adventure
Definitions
- adventure
Ancestry of “adventurement”, step by step
adventurement traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English adventure
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adventure | The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in... |
| 2 | Middle English | aventure | fate, chance; event, experience; danger, risk |
| 3 | Old French | aventure | event, happening, adventure |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 5 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 6 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 7 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |