Pronounced: lush, adj
Notes: Interesting word
Yesterday’s word
The word adventitious means
- arising from an external source
- happening by chance
- appearing in an unusual place
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
I thought that our word was related to “adventure”, thinking it may mean “adventurous”, but I was clearly wrong. Our word came from the Latin word adventicius (coming from outside; foreign), which came from advenire (to arrive), which was made of ad- (toward) and venire (to come). Our word, by the way, has all five vowels in order.
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