Etymology

at adventure

Middle English at aventure ← Old French a l'aventure
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The story

  1. Old French · derived froma l'aventure“at random”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromat aventure
  3. English todayat adventure

From Middle English at aventure, a calque of Anglo-Norman and Old French a l'aventure (“at random”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frencha l'aventure all →

at a venture

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.