Where does “adventurer” come from?
Adventurer comes from Old French -er (agent noun suffix) added to Old French adventure, itself from Latin adventūra (things about to happen), derived from Latin ad- (to) and venīre (to come).
adventurer (English): One who enjoys adventures; A person who seeks a...
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- One who enjoys adventures; A person who seeks a...
Ancestry of “adventurer”, step by step
| 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 |