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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

  1. event; dangerous situation, adventure;...

Ancestry of “aventure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchaventure—
2Vulgar Latinadventura—
3Late Latinadventurusadventure; about to arrive; an adventure
4Latinadventusarrival, approach, advent; Advent
5Latinadveniō—
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →