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avec.

with

4 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

prep/a.vɛk/

  1. with

    Je suis revenu avec lui.
    Voudriez-vous y aller avec moi ?

  2. with

    Je l'ai fait avec plaisir.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French avec, avecques (“with”), from Old French avoc, avoec, avuec (“with”), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aboc, *abhoc, *apud hŏque, from Latin apud (“with, near, close to”) + hoc (“this”) + -que. First used as a replacement for Latin cum (“with”) in Merovingian and Carolingian documents from France. Gradually supplanted Old French od (“with”), itself from apud (od however survives in some dialects in Western France under the form d'od, especially in Normandy). Cognate with Picard avuc, Norman aveuc, Walloon avou and, more distantly, with Franco-Provençal avoi (from *ab hoc and not *abhocque).

adv/a.vɛk/

  1. too, also

    informal
    Il en est vraiment content. —Bien, moi avec.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French avec, avecques (“with”), from Old French avoc, avoec, avuec (“with”), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aboc, *abhoc, *apud hŏque, from Latin apud (“with, near, close to”) + hoc (“this”) + -que. First used as a replacement for Latin cum (“with”) in Merovingian and Carolingian documents from France. Gradually supplanted Old French od (“with”), itself from apud (od however survives in some dialects in Western France under the form d'od, especially in Normandy). Cognate with Picard avuc, Norman aveuc, Walloon avou and, more distantly, with Franco-Provençal avoi (from *ab hoc and not *abhocque).

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