Where does “adventure” come from?
adventure (Middle French) comes from Latin adventura, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
adventure (Middle French): adventure; fortune
Definitions
- adventure; fortune
Ancestry of “adventure”, step by step
adventure traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin adventura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | adventura | nominative feminine singular of adventūrus;... |
| 2 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |