avec

Alternative forms

• av (text messaging)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French avec, avecques (“with”), from Old French avoc, avoec, avuec (“with”), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aboc, *abhoc, *apud hŏque,^[1][2] 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 survives however in some dialects in Western France under the form d'ot).^[2]

Cognate with Picard avuc, Norman aveuc, Walloon avou and, more distantly, with Franco-Provençal avoi (from *ab hoc and not *abhocque).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vɛk/

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Preposition

avec

1. (accompaniment) with

   Je suis revenu avec lui.

   I have returned with him.

   Voudriez-vous y aller avec moi ?

   Would you like to come with me?

   Ils m’ont dit qu’ils étaient avec toi.

   They told me that they were with you.

2. (manner, instrument) with

   Je l’ai fait avec plaisir.

   I did it with pleasure.

Adverb

avec

1. (informal) too, also

   Il en est vraiment content. —Bien, moi avec.

   He's really happy about it. —Well, me too.

Further reading

• “avec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cave

Preposition

avec

1. Alternative form of avecques

Etymology

From Old French avoc, avoec, avuec (“with”) (compare French avec).

Preposition

avec

1. (Jersey) with

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French avec (“with”).

Pronunciation

Noun

avec m or f by sense (plural avecs)

1. Alternative form of aveque