Where does “êventü̂re” come from?
êventü̂re (Middle Low German) 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.
êventü̂re (Middle Low German): a noteworthy event
Definitions
- a noteworthy event
Ancestry of “êventü̂re”, step by step
êventü̂re traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French aventure
| 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 |