aventura

See also: aventurá, aventură, à ventura, and Aventura

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [ə.βənˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.vənˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.venˈtu.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [a.βenˈtu.ɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

aventura f (plural aventures)

1. adventure
2. love affair

Derived terms

• aventurar
• aventurer
• aventurisme
• aventurista
• malaventura

Related terms

• aventurina
• malventura

Further reading

• “aventura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

French

Verb

aventura

1. third-person singular past historic of aventurer

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese aventura, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Late Latin adventūrus, from Latin advenīre, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aβenˈtuɾɐ]

Noun

aventura f (plural aventuras)

1. adventure
2. affair

Related terms

• aventurado
• aventurar
• aventureiro
• aventuroso
• benaventurado
• benaventuranza
• ventura
• ventureiro

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “aventura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “aventura”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aventura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aventura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Etymology 2

Verb

aventura

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.vẽˈtu.ɾɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.vẽˈtu.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.vẽˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.bẽˈtu.ɾɐ/ [ɐ.βẽˈtu.ɾɐ]

• Homophone: à ventura (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: a‧ven‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese aventura, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Late Latin adventūrus, from Latin advenīre, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advir).

Noun

aventura f (plural aventuras)

1. adventure (that which happens without design)

Related terms

• aventurado
• aventurar
• aventureiro
• aventuroso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

aventura

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “aventura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “aventura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aventurer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ven.tuˈra/

Verb

a aventura (third-person singular present aventurează, past participle aventurat) 1st conjugation

1. (reflexive) To take a risky or dangerous action
2. (reflexive) to venture

Conjugation

    conjugation of aventura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a aventura
gerund			aventurând
past participle			aventurat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	aventurez	aventurezi	aventurează	aventurăm	aventurați	aventurează
	imperfect	aventuram	aventurai	aventura	aventuram	aventurați	aventurau
	simple perfect	aventurai	aventurași	aventură	aventurarăm	aventurarăți	aventurară
	pluperfect	aventurasem	aventuraseși	aventurase	aventuraserăm	aventuraserăți	aventuraseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să aventurez	să aventurezi	să aventureze	să aventurăm	să aventurați	să aventureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		aventurează			aventurați
	negative		nu aventura			nu aventurați

References

• “aventura”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abenˈtuɾa/ [a.β̞ẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: a‧ven‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti

Proto-Italic *gʷəniō

Latin veniō

Latin adveniō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Indo-European *-rós

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Latin -tūrus

Latin adventūrus

Vulgar Latin *adventura

Spanish aventura

From Vulgar Latin *adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum (“to arrive”). Cognate with English adventure.

Noun

aventura f (plural aventuras)

1. adventure
2. affair, fling (an adulterous relationship)

   Synonyms: devaneo, rollo

   aventura de una noche ― one-night stand

Derived terms

• aventurar
• aventurero
• aventurilla
• deporte de aventura
• novela de aventuras (“adventure novel; adventure genre (by extension)”)

Related terms

• avenir

Descendants

• → Basque: abentura
• → Cebuano: abentura
• → Tagalog: abentura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

aventura

1. inflection of aventurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “aventura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025