Where does “avokato” come from?
avokato (Ladino) comes from Turkish avukat, from Ottoman Turkish آووقات, from French avocat, from Old French avocat, from Latin advocātus, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
avokato (Ladino): lawyer
Definitions
- lawyer
Ancestry of “avokato”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | avukat | lawyer; advocate; solicitor |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | آووقات | lawyer, attorney |
| 3 | French | avocat | lawyer; attorney; avocado |
| 4 | Old French | avocat | — |
| 5 | Latin | advocātus | One called to aid |
| 6 | Latin | advocō | to call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke |
| 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 |