aventure

See also: Aventure and aventuré

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

Verb

1. Obsolete form of adventure.

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, 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
• mésaventure

 

Further reading

• “aventure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aventure.

Noun

aventure f

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• avonture

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

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Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventūrus (“adventure”).

Noun

aventure

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.

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Middle Low German

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ä̂ventü̂re

1. Alternative form of êventü̂re.

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Portuguese

Verb

aventure

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abenˈtuɾe/ [a.β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾe]

Verb

aventure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aventurar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of aventurar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of aventurar.