Where does “avocat” come from?
avocat (Occitan) comes from Latin advocātus, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
avocat (Occitan): lawyer, attorney; avocado
Definitions
- lawyer, attorney; avocado
Ancestry of “avocat”, step by step
avocat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin advocātus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | advocātus | One called to aid |
| 2 | Latin | advocō | to call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke |
| 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 |