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名詞

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

派生語

動詞

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

1. Obsolete form of adventure.

語源

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

発音

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

名詞

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 experience (especially unfortunate)
   2. An uncertain or risky enterprise or deed.
   3. A wonder or miracle; something miraculous.
4. A tale about an adventure.

関連する語

• aventuren
• aventurous

派生した語

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

参照

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