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

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/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

aventure f (plural aventures)

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

Derived terms

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)
  • Romansch: aventüra
  • Turkish: avantür

References

Galician

Verb

aventure

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

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

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

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

References

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 singularf (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

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