# aventure
## English
### Etymology

See adventure.

### Noun

aventure (countable and uncountable, plural aventures)
* (obsolete) accident; chance; adventure
* (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)
* Obsolete form of adventure.

## Albanian
### Noun

aventure
* indefinite dative/ablative singular of aventurë

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

aventure f (plural aventures)
* adventure
* venture
* (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)
* → Romansch: 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, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 197

## Galician
### Verb

aventure
* inflection of aventurar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Middle Dutch
### Alternative forms

* avonture

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aventure.

### Noun

aventure f
* event
* dangerous situation, adventure
* happenstance
* fate
* story, account

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### 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)
* 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
* event, experience
* danger, risk
* venture, quest
* wonder, miracle
* 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: /æːvəntyːrə/, /aːvəntyːrə/

### Noun

ä̂ventü̂re
* 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)
* event, happening, adventure
* 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, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 197

## Portuguese
### Verb

aventure
* inflection of aventurar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abenˈtuɾe/ [a.β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -uɾe
* Syllabification: a‧ven‧tu‧re

### Verb

aventure
* inflection of aventurar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative