Where does “aventurine” come from?
aventurine (English) comes from French aventurine, from French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
aventurine (English): A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured...
Definitions
- A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured...
Ancestry of “aventurine”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | aventurine | aventurine |
| 2 | French | aventure | adventure; venture; affair |
| 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 |