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ad⋅vice

[ad-vahys]
–noun
1. an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice.
2. a communication, esp. from a distance, containing information: Advice from abroad informs us that the government has fallen. Recent diplomatic advices have been ominous.
3. an official notification, esp. one pertaining to a business agreement: an overdue advice.

Origin:
1250–1300; late ME advise; r. ME avis (with ad- ad- for a- a- 5 ) < OF a vis (taken from the phrase ce m'est a vis that is my impression, it seems to me) < L ad (see ad- ) + vīsus (see visage )


1. admonition, warning, caution; guidance; urging. Advice, counsel, recommendation, suggestion, persuasion, exhortation refer to opinions urged with more or less force as worthy bases for thought, opinion, conduct, or action. Advice is a practical recommendation as to action or conduct: advice about purchasing land. Counsel is weighty and serious advice, given after careful deliberation: counsel about one's career. Recommendation is weaker than advice and suggests an opinion that may or may not be acted upon: Do you think he'll follow my recommendation? Suggestion implies something more tentative than a recommendation: He did not expect his suggestion to be taken seriously. Persuasion suggests a stronger form of advice, urged at some length with appeals to reason, emotion, self-interest, or ideals: His persuasion changed their minds. Exhortation suggests an intensified persuasion or admonition, often in the form of a discourse or address: an impassioned exhortation. 2. intelligence, word. 3. notice, advisory.
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ad·vice   (ād-vīs')   
n.  
  1. Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem; counsel.

  2. Information communicated; news. Often used in the plural: advices from an ambassador.


[Middle English avis, advice, from Old French avis, from (ester) a vis, to seem : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + vis, seen (from Latin vīsum, what seems (good), from neuter past participle of vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots).]
Synonyms: These nouns denote an opinion as to a decision or course of action: sound advice for the unemployed; accepted my attorney's counsel; will follow your recommendation. See Also Synonyms at news.
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Word Origin & History

advice 
1297, auys, from O.Fr. avis "opinion," from O.Fr. ce m'est à vis "it seems to me," or from V.L. *mi est visum "in my view," ult. from L. ad- "to" + visum, neut. pp. of videre "to see" (see vision). The unhistoric -d- was introduced in Eng. 15c., on model of L. words in ad-. Substitution of -c- for -s- is 18c., to preserve the breath sound and to distinguish from advise.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: ad·vice
Pronunciation: &d-'vIs
Function: noun
1 : recommendation regarding a decision or course of conduct advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties —U.S. Constitution article II> <advice of counsel>
2 : an official notice concerning a business transaction
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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