Etymology of the English word adventure
the English word
adventurederived from the Old French word
aventurederived from the Latin word
adventuraderived from the Latin word
advenire (come to, arrive; arrive at)
derived from the Latin word
venire (to come; go for sale, be sold , be disposed of for)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*gʷā-using the Latin prefix
ad- (to, in addition)
derived from the Latin word
ad (to; near; to; to; to; near)
Date
The earliest known usage of adventure in English dates from the 13th century.
Derivations in English
adventurer,
adventuresome,
coadventure,
adventured,
adventuringCognates
Dutch
avontuur, French
aventure, French
aventur, German
Abenteuer, Icelandic
ävintyri, Italian
avventura, Lithuanian
aventiura, Provençal
aventura, Spanish
aventura, Swedish
äventyrUsage
Word found in Modern English
