avent, n.m., Advent.
aventure, n.f., adventure, occurrence; chance, accident, luck; fate, lot. À l’—; at a venture, at random. Une plaisante —; a droll adventure. Grosse —; (com.) bottomry. Dire la bonne —; to tell people’s fortunes. Se faire dire sa bonne —; to have one’s fortune told. Une diseuse de bonne —; a fortune-teller. Tenter l’—; to make a trial, to try one’s luck. Mal d’—; whitlow. D’—, par —; by chance, perchance. Si par —; if peradventure, if by chance.
aventuré, -e, part., hazardous, hazarded, bold.
aventurer, v.a., to venture, to put to the venture, to risk.
s’aventurer, v.r., to venture, to take one’s chance, to hazard, to risk one’s self.
aventureu-x, -se, adj., venturous, venturesome, adventurous.
adventuri-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., adventurer, adventuress.
aventurine, n.f., avanturine, venturine.
avenu, -e, part., come to pass, happened. Acte nul et non —; act that is null and void.
avenue, n.f., avenue, approach, walk.