Aventureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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

From Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra.

名詞

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.

派生した語

• English: aventure, adventure
• Scots: anter, adventur

参照

• “aventūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.