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Latin
Etymology
From adveniō (“arrive”) + -tus (action noun forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
adventus m (genitive adventūs); fourth declension
- arrival, coming, approach, advent
- Antonyms: exitus, exitium, ēgressiō, abitus
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Advent
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
- Borrowings
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