| 1 | Spanish | desventaja | disadvantage, drawback, downside, weakness |
| 2 | Spanish | ventaja | advantage, upper hand, edge; benefit; head start |
| 3 | French | avantage | advantage |
| 4 | Old French | avantage | advantage; profit; gain |
| 5 | Old French | avant | beforehand; earlier |
| 6 | Latin | ab ante | — |
| 7 | Latin | ante | before, in front, forwards; before; before,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κλίσις | bending, inclination; a lying down; a place for... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | -τις | Earlier form of -σις , retained after dentals δ,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |