advenir

• advindre

Borrowed from Latin advenīre. Doublet of avenir.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əd.bəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əd.vəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ad.veˈniɾ]

advenir (first-person singular present advinc, first-person singular preterite advinguí, past participle advingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to happen, to occur

• avenir

• “advenir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “advenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “advenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “advenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French advenir, from Latin advenīre (or re-Latinized further from an Old French form avenir). Cf. also the archaic inherited doublet aveindre (“pull or take something from its resting place; reach or attain something through effort”), coming through a Vulgar Latin form *advenǐre or influenced by atteindre.

• IPA^(key): /ad.və.niʁ/

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advenir (defective)

1. (impersonal, defective, literary or poetic) to happen, to occur

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-). This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

• advienne que pourra

• avenir

• “advenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• vendrai, viendra

From Latin advenīre, present active infinitive of adveniō. Cf. also Old French avenir.

advenir

1. To happen, to occur.
   • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 67:

     Lors commença Lancelot a compter toutes les adventures qui lui estoient advenues

     Then Lancelot started to recount all the adventures that had happened to him

   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 37:

     là où, quand ils sont beaucoup, ils descrient tous les coups le mestier, d’autant qu’il leur advient de faire plus souvent mal que bien.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from Latin advenīre. Doublet of avenir.

• IPA^(key): /adbeˈniɾ/ [að̞.β̞eˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ad‧ve‧nir

advenir (first-person singular present advengo, first-person singular preterite advine, past participle advenido)

1. (intransitive) to arrive

   Synonym: llegar

2. (intransitive) to happen

   Synonyms: ocurrir, pasar, acontecer, suceder

• “advenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014