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Where does “aventure” come from?

aventure (Middle English) 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 English): fate, chance; event, experience; danger, risk

Definitions

  1. fate, chance; event, experience; danger, risk

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

Words derived from “aventure”

  • adventure
  • adventurer
  • adventuress
  • adventuresome
  • adventurism
  • aventure
  • adventurist
  • adventuristic
  • adventuresomeness
  • coadventurer
  • paraventure
  • adventureless
  • adventureth
  • adventurest
  • adventureful
  • ecoadventure
  • adventuresomely
  • nonadventure
  • adventurement
  • coadventure
  • adventurish
  • アドベンチャー
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