Origin of Phrases - A
Advice
This word has been around since the 1300s. It started out as avis, borrowed from the Old French expression "ce m'est a vis," which meant "my view is." The French phrase itself comes from the Latin phrase ad visum, to see or know. The English spelling advis was popularized during the late 1400s as an imitation of the Latin phrase. The final "e" was added in the 1500s as a mutation of the word, while the "s" was changed to a "c" in the 1700s to help distinguish the noun form from the verb advise.