auntrous
Middle English
Alternative forms
- aventurous, aunterous
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French aventuros.
Adjective
auntrous
- adventurous
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Sir Thopas: 219-21.
- And for he was a knyght auntrous,
- He nolde slepen in noon hous,
- But liggen in his hoode.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Sir Thopas: 219-21.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for auntrous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Descendants
- English: adventurous
References
- “aventūrǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.