advent

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/ === Noun === advent (plural advents) Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching. 1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 3: At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. === Verb === advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented) To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something. 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic? 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights. 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives. In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another. ==== Synonyms ==== (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== advene adventure ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== beginning, commencement, start == Catalan == === Alternative forms === Advent === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central) [ədˈben] IPA(key): (Balearic) [ədˈvent] IPA(key): (Valencia) [adˈvent] Rhymes: -ent === Noun === advent m (plural advents) Advent === Further reading === “advent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “advent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “advent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “advent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == Czech == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus. First attested in the 14th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈadvɛnt] Hyphenation: ad‧vent === Noun === advent m inan Advent (season before Christmas) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “advent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 “advent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 == Danish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥] === Noun === advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer) Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas) ==== Inflection ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑtˈfɛnt/ Hyphenation: ad‧vent Rhymes: -ɛnt === Noun === advent m (uncountable, no diminutive) (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve) ==== Derived terms ==== adventskaars adventskalender adventstijd ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: Advent → Indonesian: adven → Javanese: adven → Papiamentu: atvènt == Middle High German == === Alternative forms === advente === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin adventus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /adˈvent/, /adˈfent/ === Noun === advent m Advent (season before Christmas) ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Alemannic German: Advänt German: Advent→ Hunsrik: Advent Luxembourgish: Advent === References === Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “advent”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/ === Noun === advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene) Advent (period before Christmas) ==== Derived terms ==== adventskalender === References === “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus. === Noun === advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene) Advent (period before Christmas) ==== Derived terms ==== adventskalender === References === “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Old Czech == === Etymology === === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈadʋɛnt/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈadvɛnt/ === Noun === advent m inan Advent ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Czech: advent === Further reading === Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “advent”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění == Old Frisian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus. === Noun === advent m advent ==== Inflection ==== == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus. === Noun === advent n (plural adventuri) Advent ==== Declension ==== == Serbo-Croatian == === Alternative forms === àdvenat === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ǎdʋent/ Hyphenation: ad‧vent === Noun === àdvent m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент) (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== Àdvent === References === “advent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026 == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish advent, borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /adˈvɛnt/ === Noun === advent n Advent ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Finnish: adventti