| 1 | French | avance | advance; advances; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | French | avancer | to advance, to go forward; to progress; to bring... |
| 3 | Middle French | advancer | to advance |
| 4 | Old French | avancier | to advance; to move forward; to advance; to... |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | abanteare | present active infinitive of *abanteō;... |
| 6 | Latin | ab ante | — |
| 7 | Latin | ante | before, in front, forwards; before; before,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κλίσις | bending, inclination; a lying down; a place for... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | -τις | Earlier form of -σις , retained after dentals δ,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |