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Where does “avarie” come from?

avarie (Middle French) comes from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria.

Ancestry of “avarie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchavariedamage done to goods on a watercraft when they...
2Old Italianavaria—

Words derived from “avarie”

  • average
  • averagely
  • subaverage
  • averageness
  • averager
  • unaverage
  • averageable
  • deaverage
  • gyroaverage
  • average
Every word from Old Italian avaria →