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Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adˈvento/
- Rhymes: -ento
- Hyphenation: ad‧ven‧to
Noun
advento (accusative singular adventon, plural adventoj, accusative plural adventojn)
- advent
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adventus (“approach”). The inherited form avento has fallen out of use.
Pronunciation
Noun
advento m (plural adventos)
- Advent (season before Christmas)
- 1370, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, II, page 318:
- Et que os clerigos da dita iglesia que me digan cada anno huna minsa cantada pollo mes de avento
- And the clerics of the aforementioned church shall say a chanted mass, each year, sometime during the month of Advent
Pola vintena do advento, chuvia, neve e vento.- By the twenties of Advent, rain, snow and wind.
(proverb)
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “avento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “avento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “advento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “advento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Further reading
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto advento, Latin adventus, English advent, French avent, German Advent, Italian avvento, Russian адве́нт (advént), Spanish adviento.
Pronunciation
Noun
advento (plural adventi)
- (Christianity) advent
Further reading
- advento in Ido-English Dictionary by L.H. Dyer, 1924
Interlingua
Noun
advento (uncountable)
- arrival, advent
Latin
Etymology
From adveniō (“arrive”) + -tō.
Pronunciation
Verb
adventō (present infinitive adventāre, perfect active adventāvī, supine adventātum); first conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive) to come continually nearer to a point, approach, arrive at, press forward, march on, come to, draw near
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “advento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “advento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- advento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adventus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒiˈvẽ.tu/, /ad͡ʒˈvẽ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ad͡ʒˈvẽ.to/, /a.d͡ʒiˈvẽ.to/
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
- Hyphenation: ad‧ven‧to
Noun
advento m (plural adventos)
- (formal) advent; coming; arrival
- Synonyms: (more informal) chegada, (more informal) vinda
Further reading
- “advento”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “advento”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “advento” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “advento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “advento”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “advento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025