avancer

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to advance, to go forward
  2. (intransitive) to progress
  3. (transitive) to bring forward, to advance
  4. (transitive) to propose, to put forward
  5. (reflexive) to move towards, to go up to, to approach
  6. (colloquial, transitive) to help out somebody by lending them money for a short time (for example because they don't have any cash and the store doesn't take bank cards), to tide someone over

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.vɑ̃.se/
Etymology

In summary

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Late Latin ab ante Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Vulgar Latin *abanteāre Old French avancier Middle French advancer French avancer Inherited from Middle French advancer, from Old French avancier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante.

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