A wide avenue or main street, especially used in Spanish-speaking cities and regions.
From Spanish and Portuguese 'avenida', derived from Latin 'advenire' (to arrive at, to come to). The word originally described roads where travelers arrived, and evolved to mean a major street or avenue.
Spanish and Portuguese used Latin in fundamentally different ways—where 'via' gave us street terminology in some Romance languages, 'avenida' took over, and you can see this difference on city maps worldwide: European cities have 'Straße' while Latin American cities have 'Avenida.'
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