Where does “Advent” come from?
Advent (German) comes from Middle High German advent, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
Advent (German): Advent
Definitions
- Advent
Ancestry of “Advent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle High German | advent | Advent |
| 2 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 3 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |