advent

See also: Advent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/

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Noun

advent (plural advents)

1. Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
   • 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:

     Death's dreadful advent

   • 1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 3:

     At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

   • 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:

     The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side...

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51-52:

     Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.

Verb

advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented)

1. To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
   • 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.

     But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?

   • 1873, Francis Bret Harte, An episode of Fiddletown, and other sketches:

     The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.

   • 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India

     Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.

   • 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives.

     In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.

Synonyms

• (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset

Derived terms

Terms related to advent (noun)

• advene
• Advent
• Adventist
• Advent Sunday
• adventual
• Advent wreath

Related terms

• advene
• adventure

Translations

coming, arrival

• Armenian: գալուստ (hy) (galust)
• Bulgarian: поява (bg) (pojava), идване (bg) (idvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 到來 / 到来 (zh) (dàolái), 出現 / 出现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 來臨 / 来临 (zh) (láilín)

• Danish: komme (da) n, ankomst (da) c
• Finnish: saapuminen (fi)
• French: arrivée (fr) f
• German: Ankunft (de) f
• Greek: έλευση (el) f (élefsi), άφιξη (el) f (áfixi)
• Hebrew: ביאה (he) f, ביאת המשיח
• Hindi: आगमन (hi) (āgman)
• Hungarian: beköszönte (only used in the possessive), eljövetel (hu), megérkezés (hu)
• Italian: avvento (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەرپەڕین (derperrîn)

• Norwegian:

  Norwegian bokmål: advent (no) m

  Norwegian nynorsk: advent f

• Odia: ଆଗମନ (āgamana)
• Polish: nadejście (pl) n
• Portuguese: chegada (pt) f, vinda (pt) f, advento (pt) m
• Russian: появле́ние (ru) (pojavlénije), приход (ru) m (prixod), прибытие (ru) n (pribytije), наступление (ru) n (nastuplenije), применение (ru) n (primenenije), развитие (ru) n (razvitije), разработка (ru) f (razrabotka), пришествие (ru) n (prišestvije), изобретение (ru) n (izobretenije)
• Spanish: advenimiento (es) m, venida (es) f
• Swedish: ankomst (sv) c
• Welsh: dyfodiad m

Christianity — see Advent

See also

• beginning, commencement, start

Catalan

Alternative forms

• Advent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ədˈben]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ədˈvent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [adˈvent]

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• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

advent m (plural advents)

1. Advent

Further reading

• “advent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “advent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “advent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “advent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈadvɛnt]
• Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

advent m inan

1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Declension of advent (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	advent	adventy
genitive	adventu	adventů
dative	adventu	adventům
accusative	advent	adventy
vocative	advente	adventy
locative	adventu, adventě	adventech
instrumental	adventem	adventy

Related terms

Related terms

• adventní
• adventura
• avenue
• eventualita
• eventuální
• invence
• inventář
• inventura
• intervence
• intervencionismus
• intervenovat
• konvence
• konvencionalismus
• konvenovat
• konvent
• prevence
• provenience
• subvence
• subvencovat
• suvenýr

Further reading

• “advent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “advent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

Noun

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

1. Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)

Inflection

Declension of advent

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	advent	adventen	adventer	adventerne
genitive	advents	adventens	adventers	adventernes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑtˈfɛnt/
• Hyphenation: ad‧vent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

advent m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)

Derived terms

• adventskaars
• adventskalender
• adventstijd

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Advent
• → Indonesian: adven
• → Javanese: adven
• → Papiamentu: atvènt

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• advente

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /adˈvent/, /adˈfent/

Noun

advent m

1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Declension of advent (strong masculine without umlaut)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	advent	die	advente
genitive	eines	dës	adventes	dër	advente
dative	eime	dëm	advente	dën	adventen
accusative	einen	dën	advent	die	advente

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Advänt
• German: Advent
  • → Hunsrik: Advent
• Luxembourgish: Advent

References

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “advent”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/

Noun

advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

• adventskalender

References

• “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

• adventskalender

References

• “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti

Proto-Italic *gʷənjō

Latin veniō

Latin adveniō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin adventusbor.

Old Czech advent

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈadʋɛnt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈadvɛnt/

Noun

advent m inan

1. Advent

Declension

Declension of advent (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	advent	adventy	adventi, adventové
genitive	adventa, adventu	adventú	adventóv
dative	adventu	adventoma	adventóm
accusative	advent	adventy	adventy
vocative	advente	adventy	adventi, adventové
locative	adventě, adventu	adventú	adventiech
instrumental	adventem	adventoma	adventy

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Descendants

• Czech: advent

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “advent”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

advent m

1. advent

Inflection

Declension of advent (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	advent	adventar, adventa
accusative	advent	adventar, adventa
genitive	adventes	adventa
dative	advente	adventum, adventem

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.

Noun

advent n (plural adventuri)

1. Advent

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	advent	adventul		adventuri	adventurile
genitive-dative	advent	adventului		adventuri	adventurilor
vocative	adventule			adventurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• àdvenat

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎdʋent/
• Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

àdvent m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)

1. (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)

Declension

Declension of advent

	singular	plural
nominative	àdvent	adventi
genitive	adventa	àdvenātā
dative	adventu	adventima
accusative	advent	advente
vocative	advente	adventi
locative	adventu	adventima
instrumental	adventom	adventima

Related terms

• Àdvent

References

• “advent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish advent, borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adˈvɛnt/

Noun

advent n

1. Advent

Declension

Declension of advent

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	advent	advents
	definite	adventet	adventets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• adventskalender
• adventsljusstake
• adventsrätt
• adventsstjärna
• adventssöndag
• adventstid
• adventsäpple

Descendants

• → Finnish: adventti