Etymology

parvenue

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French parvenue ← Latin parvenire
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromparvenire
  2. French · borrowed fromparvenue
  3. English todayparvenue

Borrowed from French parvenue, feminine past participle of parvenir (“to arrive”), learned borrowing from Latin parvenire, from per- (“through”) + venire (“to come”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.