aventure

See also: Aventure, aventuré, and aventurë

English

Etymology

See adventure.

Noun

aventure (countable and uncountable, plural aventures)

1. (obsolete) accident; chance; adventure
2. (obsolete) a mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire

Verb

aventure (third-person singular simple present aventures, present participle aventuring, simple past and past participle aventured)

1. Obsolete form of adventure.

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vɑ̃.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

aventure f (plural aventures)

1. adventure
2. venture
3. (romantic) affair

Derived terms

• aventurer
• diseuse de bonne aventure
• mésaventure

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: アバンチュール
• → Polish: awantura
  • → Belarusian: аванту́ра (avantúra)
  • → Yiddish: אַוואַנטורע (avanture)
• → Russian: авантюра (avantjura) (see there for further descendants)
• → Romansch: aventüra
• → Turkish: avantür

References

• “aventure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*advĕntūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 197

Galician

Verb

aventure

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

• avonture

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aventure.

Noun

aventure f

1. event
2. dangerous situation, adventure
3. happenstance
4. fate
5. story, account

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: avontuur
  • Afrikaans: avontuur
  • Indonesian: avontur

Further reading

• “aventure”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “aventure (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• aventor, aventour, aventer, aventir, adventure, eventure, antur, auntur, anter, aunter

Etymology

From Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

Noun

aventure (plural aventures)

1. fate, chance
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line LINES:

     At nyght was come into that hostelrye / Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye / Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle / In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,

     There came at nightfall to that hostelry / Some nine and twenty in a company / Of sundry folk who had by chance fallen / In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all

2. event, experience
3. danger, risk
4. venture, quest
5. wonder, miracle
6. A tale of adventures.

Descendants

• English: aventure, adventure
• Scots: anter, adventur

References

• “aventūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• (originally) IPA^(key): /æːvəntyːrə/, /aːvəntyːrə/

Noun

ä̂ventü̂re

1. Alternative form of êventü̂re.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

Noun

aventure oblique singular, f (oblique plural aventures, nominative singular aventure, nominative plural aventures)

1. event, happening, adventure
2. destiny, fortune, accident, misadventure

Descendants

• French: aventure (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Dutch: aventure (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: aventure (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle High German: āventiure
  • German: Abenteuer (influenced by Middle Low German)
• → Middle Irish: amhantur
• → Middle Low German: êventü̂re (see there for further descendants)

References

• aventure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*advĕntūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 197

Portuguese

Verb

aventure

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abenˈtuɾe/ [a.β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -uɾe
• Syllabification: a‧ven‧tu‧re

Verb

aventure

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative