advento

See also: Advento

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“approach”). The inherited form avento has felt out of use.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /adˈbento̝/

Noun

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 twenty days of Advent, rain, snow and wind».

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “avento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Template:R:TILG

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Latin

Etymology

From adveniō (“arrive”) +‎ -tō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /adˈu̯en.toː/, [äd̪ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /adˈven.to/, [äd̪ˈvɛn̪t̪o]

Verb

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

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.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌad͡ʒ.ˈvẽ.tu/

Noun

advento m (plural s)

1. (formal) advent; coming; arrival

Synonyms

• chegada (more informal), vinda (more informal)