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adventus

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Etymology

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    From adveniō (arrive) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    adventus m (genitive adventūs); fourth declension

    1. arrival, coming, approach, advent
      Antonyms: exitus, exitium, ēgressiō, abitus
      • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:
        Ubi dē ēius adventū Helvētiī certiōrēs factī sunt, lēgātōs ad eum mittunt nōbilissimōs cīvitātis, cūius lēgātiōnis Nammēius et Verucloetius prīncipem locum obtinēbant [] .
        When the Helvetii were informed about his arrival, they sent to him the most distinguished envoys of their state, of which embassy Nammeius and Verucloetius held the chief position[s].
    2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Advent

    Declension

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    Fourth-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative adventus adventūs
    genitive adventūs adventuum
    dative adventuī adventibus
    accusative adventum adventūs
    ablative adventū adventibus
    vocative adventus adventūs
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    Descendants

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    Borrowings

    References

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    • adventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • adventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "adventus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • adventus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • arrival in Rome, in town: adventus Romam, in urbem
    • adventus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • adventus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin