Advantage

Morpheme

Advantage

Type

free base

Denotation

position of being in front or ahead

Etymology

Middle English avantage; Old French avantage, from avant; Late Latin ab ante; Latin ab + ante

Evidence

advantage, advantageable, advantaged, advantageous, advantageously, advantageousness, advantages, advantaging, counteradvantage, disadvantage, overadvantage, underadvantage

Notes

unetymology <d> erroneously added in 16c. through misanalysis as ad-

See Also

ab-, Ante, Vantage, Advance