Where does “avanteur” come from?
avanteur (Old French) comes from Old French avanter, from Old French vanter, from Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus, from Italian vano, from Italian vanare, from Romanian -re, from Latin -āre — he, she.
avanteur (Old French): vaunter; boaster
Definitions
- vaunter; boaster
Ancestry of “avanteur”, step by step
avanteur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French avanter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | avanter | to boast; to vaunt |
| 2 | Old French | vanter | to boast; to blow |
| 3 | Latin | vānitāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | vānus | vain, empty, vacant, void |
| 5 | Italian | vano | vain, useless, idle; quaint; space, opening,... |
| 6 | Italian | vanare | Alternative form of vaneggiare |
| 7 | Romanian | -re | -ing, -ation |
| 8 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Old French eür
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | eür | Alternative form of eur |
| 2 | Latin | augurium | augury; divination, prediction; omen, portent |
| 3 | Latin | augur | augur (priest, diviner, or soothsayer, one who foretold the future in part by interpreting the song and flight of birds) |
| 4 | Latvian | augos | locative plural form of augs; locative plural... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |