avocat

Cf. French avocat (lawyer)

avocat (plural avocats)

1. An advocate, a lawyer

• avocat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avocat”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /a.vɔ.ka/

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Borrowed from Latin advocātus. Doublet of avoué.

avocat m (plural avocats, feminine avocate)

1. (law) lawyer; attorney

• avocat du diable

• → Ottoman Turkish: آووقات‎ (avokat)
  • Turkish: avukat

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.[1]

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. avocado

   Synonym: poire d'avocat

• → Khmer: អាវ៉ូកាត៍ (ʼaavoukaa)
• → Norman: avocat

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

• aucat

From Latin advocatus.

avocat m (plural avocac)

1. lawyer, solicitor
2. advocate

āvocat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of āvocō

Borrowed from Latin advocātus (“advocate”).

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. (Jersey) advocate
2. (Jersey, law) barrister

• homme d'affaithes

Borrowed from French avocat, from Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl. Influenced by confusion with Spanish abogado (“lawyer”).

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. (Jersey) avocado

• avocatchi (“avocado tree”)

From Latin advocatus.

avocat m (plural avocats, feminine avocata, feminine plural avocatas)

1. lawyer, attorney

From Spanish avocado.

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. avocado

From Latin advocātus (“advocate”).

• IPA^(key): /avuˈkat/

avocat m (plural avocat)

1. lawyer

• advocat (rare)

Borrowed from French avocat, Latin advocatus. Compare Aromanian avucat.

• IPA^(key): /a.voˈkat/

avocat m (plural avocați, feminine equivalent avocată)

1. (law) lawyer, attorney, barrister

• apărător
• procator (regional, in Transylvania)
• defensor, vechil (dated)

• a se face avocatul cuiva, a fi avocatul cuiva
• avocațial
• avocațional
• avocățel
• avocățesc

• avocatură

• lege

• avocat in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)