• IPA^(key): /adˈvento/

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: ad‧ven‧to

advento (accusative singular adventon, plural adventoj, accusative plural adventojn)

1. advent

Learned borrowing from Latin adventus (“approach”). The inherited form avento has fallen out of use.

• IPA^(key): /adˈbento̝/
• IPA^(key): /adˈbɛnto̝/

advento m (plural adventos)

1. 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)

• 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

• “advento”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Esperanto advento, Latin adventus, English advent, French avent, German Advent, Italian avvento, Russian адве́нт (advént), Spanish adviento.

• IPA^(key): /adˈvento/

advento (plural adventi)

1. (Christianity) advent

• advento in Ido-English Dictionary by L.H. Dyer, 1924

advento (uncountable)

1. arrival, advent

From adveniō (“arrive”) +‎ -tō.

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adventō (present infinitive adventāre, perfect active adventāvī, supine adventātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive) to come continually nearer to a point, approach, arrive at, press forward, march on, come to, draw near

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: ad‧ven‧to

advento m (plural adventos)

1. (formal) advent; coming; arrival

   Synonyms: (more informal) chegada, (more informal) vinda

• “advento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (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