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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French aventuros.
Adjective
auntrous
- adventurous
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC, lines
219-21:
And for he was a knyght auntrous,
He nolde slepen in noon hous,
But liggen in his hoode.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
References
- “auntrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “aventūrǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.