Where does “aventure” come from?
aventure (Middle Dutch) comes from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
aventure (Middle Dutch): event; dangerous situation, adventure;...
Definitions
- event; dangerous situation, adventure;...
Ancestry of “aventure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | aventure | event, happening, adventure |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 3 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 4 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 5 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |