aventure

See also: Aventure, aventuré, and aventurë

English

Etymology

See adventure.

Noun

aventure (countable and uncountable, plural aventures)

1. (obsolete) accident; chance; adventure
2. (obsolete) a mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire

Derived terms

• paraventure

Verb

aventure (third-person singular simple present aventures, present participle aventuring, simple past and past participle aventured)

1. Obsolete form of adventure.

Albanian

Noun

aventure

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of aventurë

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Late Latin adventūrus, from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vɑ̃.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

aventure f (plural aventures)

1. adventure
2. venture
3. (romantic) affair

Derived terms

• aventurer
• diseuse de bonne aventure
• mésaventure

Descendants

• → German: Aventüre
• → Japanese: アバンチュール
• → Polish: awantura
  • → Belarusian: аванту́ра (avantúra)
  • → Yiddish: אַוואַנטורע (avanture)
• → Russian: авантюра (avantjura) (see there for further descendants)
• → Romansh: aventüra
• → Turkish: avantür

References

• “aventure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*advĕntūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 197

Galician

Verb

aventure

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

• āvonture

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aventure.

Noun

āventure f

1. event
2. dangerous situation, adventure
3. happenstance
4. fate
5. story, account

Inflection

Weak feminine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	āventure	āventuren
accusative	āventure	āventuren
genitive	āventure, āventuren	āventuren
dative	āventure, āventuren	āventuren

Descendants

• Dutch: avontuur
  • Afrikaans: avontuur
  • Indonesian: avontur

Further reading

• “aventure”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “aventure (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• aventor, aventour, aventer, aventir, adventure, eventure, antur, auntur, anter, aunter

Etymology

From Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

Noun

aventure (plural aventures)

1. fate, chance
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line LINES:

     At nyght was come into that hostelrye / Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye / Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle / In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,

     There came at nightfall to that hostelry / Some nine and twenty in a company / Of sundry folk who had by chance fallen / In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all

2. event, experience
3. danger, risk
4. venture, quest
5. wonder, miracle
6. A tale of adventures.

Descendants

• English: aventure, adventure
• Scots: anter, adventur

References

• “aventūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• (originally) IPA^(key): /æːvəntyːrə/, /aːvəntyːrə/

Noun

ä̂ventü̂re

1. alternative form of êventü̂re

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

Noun

aventure oblique singular, f (oblique plural aventures, nominative singular aventure, nominative plural aventures)

1. event, happening, adventure
2. destiny, fortune, accident, misadventure

Descendants

• French: aventure (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Dutch: aventure (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: aventure (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle High German: âventiure
  • German: Abenteuer (influenced by Middle Low German)
• → Middle Irish: amhantur
• → Middle Low German: êventü̂re (see there for further descendants)

References

• aventure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*advĕntūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 197

Portuguese

Verb

aventure

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abenˈtuɾe/ [a.β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -uɾe
• Syllabification: a‧ven‧tu‧re

Verb

aventure

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative