adventus

Latin

Etymology

From adveniō (“arrive”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /adˈu̯en.tus/, [äd̪ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /adˈven.tus/, [äd̪ˈvɛn̪t̪us]

Noun

adventus m (genitive adventūs); fourth declension

1. arrival, coming, approach, advent

   Antonyms: exitus, exitium, ēgressiō, abitus

2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Advent

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	adventus	adventūs
genitive	adventūs	adventuum
dative	adventuī	adventibus
accusative	adventum	adventūs
ablative	adventū	adventibus
vocative	adventus	adventūs

Related terms

• adventor

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: Avventu
  • Dalmatian: adviant
  • Italian: avvento
  • Sicilian: Avventu, abbentu,
    • → Maltese: Avvent
• Occitan: abén, auens
• Sardinian: avéntu, avventu
• Venetan: avento
  • → Cimbrian: Avént
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: aviento
  • Asturian: avientu
  • Galician: avento
  • Spanish: Adviento, adviento (semi-learned)
    • → Cebuano: Adbiyento
    • → Tagalog: Adbiyento
    • → Waray-Waray: adbyento

Borrowings

• → Basque: abendu
• → Belarusian: адвент (advjent)
• → Breton: Azvent
• → Catalan: Advent
• → Czech: advent
• → Estonian: advent
• → Faroese: advent, atvent
• → Galician: advento
• → German Low German: Advent
• → Hungarian: advent
• → Icelandic: aðventa
• → Irish: Aidbhint
• → Kashubian: adwańt
• → Latvian: advente, advents
• → Lithuanian: Adventas
• → Malagasy: Advento
• → Middle Dutch: advent
  • Dutch: advent (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: adventj
• → Middle High German: advente
  • Alemannic German: Advänt
  • German: Advent
  • Luxembourgish: Advent
• → Norwegian: advent
• → Occitan: advent
• → Old French: advent, avent
  • French: avent
  • Walloon: Avéns
  • → Middle English: advent, avent
    • English: advent
    • Scots: advent
• → Old Frisian: advent
• → Old Swedish: advent
  • Swedish: advent
    • → Finnish: adventti
• → Piedmontese: Advent
• → Plautdietsch: Adwent
• → Old Polish: adwent
  • Polish: adwent
• → Portuguese: advento
• → Romanian: advent
• → Russian: адвент (advent)
• → Samogitian: advėnts
• → Scottish Gaelic: Aidmheint
• → Serbo-Croatian: Advent / Адвент
• → Silesian: adwynt
• → Slovak: advent
• → Slovene: advent
• → Ukrainian: адвент (advent)
• → Welsh: Adfent
• → Western Mari: адвент (advent)

References

• “adventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adventus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• adventus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • arrival in Rome, in town: adventus Romam, in urbem
    
• “adventus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “adventus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin