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aventure

See also: Aventure, aventuré, and aventurë

English

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Etymology

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See adventure.

Noun

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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

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

  1. Obsolete form of adventure.

French

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): /a.vɑ̃.tyʁ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

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aventure f (plural aventures)

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

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Galician

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Verb

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aventure

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

Middle Dutch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French aventure.

Noun

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aventure f

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

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

Noun

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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.

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Middle Low German

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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ä̂ventü̂re

  1. Alternative form of êventü̂re.

Old French

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

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  • 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: āventiure
    • German: Abenteuer (influenced by Middle Low German)
  • → Middle Irish: amhantur
  • → Middle Low German: êventü̂re (see there for further descendants)

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Portuguese

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Verb

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aventure

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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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aventure

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