Where does “avant-courier” come from?
avant-courier (English) comes from French avant-coureur, from French courir, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
avant-courier (English): A person dispatched before another person or...
Definitions
- A person dispatched before another person or...
Ancestry of “avant-courier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | avant-coureur | messenger, scout; foresayer, predicter;... |
| 2 | French | courir | to run; to go |
| 3 | Latin | percurrere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |