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Where does “adventurest” come from?

adventurest (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.

adventurest (English): second-person singular simple present form of...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular simple present form of...

Ancestry of “adventurest”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishadventureThe encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in...
2Middle Englishaventurefate, chance; event, experience; danger, risk
3Old Frenchaventure—
4Vulgar Latinadventura—
5Late Latinadventurusadventure; about to arrive; an adventure
6Latinadventusarrival, approach, advent; Advent
7Latinadveniō—
8Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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