Reconstruction:Latin/adventura

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Substantivization of the neuter plural of adventūrus, future active participle of advenīre (“arrive, come”).

Later borrowed from Romance into thirteenth-century Medieval Latin as adventura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aββenˈtura/

Noun

*adventūra f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. event, fate, adventure

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/aββenˈtura/	*/aββenˈturas/
oblique	*/aββenˈtura/	*/aββenˈturas/

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: avventura
    • → Maltese: avventura
  • Sicilian: avvintura
• North Italian:
  • Romansch: vantüra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: aventura
  • Old French: aventure (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: aventura
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: aventura
  • Portuguese: aventura
  • Galician: aventura
  • Spanish: aventura (see there for further descendants)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*advĕntūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 194