aventure

See adventure.

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

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

1. Obsolete form of adventure.

aventure

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of aventurë

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

• IPA^(key): /a.vɑ̃.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

aventure f (plural aventures)

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

• → 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

• “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 (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 197

aventure

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

• āvonture

Borrowed from Old French aventure.

āventure f

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

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

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

Borrowed from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra. First attested in c. 1225; doublet of venture.

• aventour, aunter, auntre, auntur, aunture, auntyr
• adventure, eventure (Late Middle English); avynter, awntyr (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• avantir, aventurre (East Anglia); auntir (East Saxon); awentyr (Kent); antoure (West Midland)
• anttour, auntour, awnter, awntere, awntir, awenture (Northern, Northwest Midland); aventur, awentur, awntur, awntyre (Early Scots)

• IPA^(key): /ˌavənˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈavəntur(ə)/, /ˈavəntər(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /aˌvɛnˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /aˌvɛntur(ə)/, /aˌvɛntər(ə)/ (reinterpreted as containing the prefix a- or by analogy to aventurous)
• IPA^(key): /ˌa(u̯)nˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈa(u̯)ntur(ə)/, /ˈa(u̯)ntər(ə)/ (contraction, especially Northern)

aventure (plural aventures)

1. Fate; chance, luck.
   • 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. Risk; the potential for danger or loss.
3. An event or experience; something that occurs:
   1. A chance occurence (especially unfortunate)
   2. An uncertain or risky enterprise or deed.
   3. A wonder or miracle; something miraculous.
4. A tale about an adventure.

• aventuren
• aventurous

• English: adventure (dialectal anter, obsolete aventure)
• Middle Scots: aventure, aventour; anter
  • Scots: adventur; anter

• “aventūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “adventure, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

aventure

1. alternative form of aventuren

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

ä̂ventü̂re

1. alternative form of êventü̂re

From Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

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

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

• 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)

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

aventure

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

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

aventure

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