advice
Meanings
- An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
- Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
- Information or news given; intelligence.
- In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
- In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange.
- A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions.
- Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
- Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
- In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
- Misspelling of advise.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Latin vīsus Old French vis Old French avisbor. Middle English avys English advice From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, rebracketed from the phrase ce m'est a vis (“I think”, “it seems to me”, literally “it is to my view”), where vis is from Latin vīsus (“vision, sight”). The unhistoric -d- was introduced during the 15th century due to influence from advise and ad-, see advance. Doublet of aviso. See vision, and compare avise, advise. Mostly displaced native Old English rǣd (see modern rede).