Where does “aventure” come from?
aventure (Old French) comes from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
aventure (Old French): event, happening, adventure
Definitions
- event, happening, adventure
Ancestry of “aventure”, step by step
aventure traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vulgar Latin adventura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 2 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 3 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 4 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Latin adventurus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | adventurus | about to arrive; an adventure |