Where does “avocat” come from?

avocat (French) comes from Old French avocat, from Latin advocātus, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

avocat (French): lawyer; attorney; avocado

Definitions

  1. lawyer; attorney; avocado

Ancestry of “avocat”, step by step

avocat traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French avocat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchavocat
2LatinadvocātusOne called to aid
3Latinadvocōto call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-un-, non-, not
6Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via Spanish avocado

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishavocadoavocado
2Spanishaguacateavocado; a shade of green like an avocado; a...
3Nahuatlāhuacatl
4Proto-Nahuanpa:waavocado

via English avocat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishavocatAn advocate, a lawyer

Words derived from “avocat

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Latin ad-