Adventus
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Adventus is the Latin word for arrival, and may mean
- The Latin word for the Christian season of Advent
- A Roman cognomen, held by
- Quintus Antistius Adventus, governor of Britain
- Marcus Oclatinus Adventus, head of the frumentarii
- Adventus Saxonum, the traditional date for the arrival of the Saxons in Britain in 449
- Adventus Interactive, an educational software package
- Adventus (ceremony), the ceremony of an emperor's formal arrival at a city (usually, but not always, Rome)
- Adventus (art), the artistic convention of depicting this ceremony