auntrous

Middle English

Alternative forms

• aventurous, aunterous

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aventuros.

Adjective

auntrous

1. adventurous
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 219-21:

     And for he was a knyght auntrous,
     He nolde slepen in noon hous,
     But liggen in his hoode.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• auntren

Descendants

• English: adventurous

References

• “auntrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “aventūrǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.