1590s, "furnishing advantages," formed in English from advantage + -ous on the model of French avantageux (15c.). Related: Advantageously; advantageousness.
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advantage n.
early 14c., avantage, "position of being in advance of another," from Old French avantage "advantage, profit; superiority" (12c.), from avant "before," probably via an unrecorded Late or Medieval Latin *abantaticum, from Latin abante "from before," composed of ab "from" (see ab-) + ante "before, in front of, against" (from PIE root *ant- "front, forehead"). Compare advance (v.).
Advantage is the possession of a good vantage-ground for the attainment of ulterior objects of desire .... [Century Dictionary]
The unetymological -d- is a 16c. intrusion on the analogy of the many Latin ad- words in English. The meaning "any condition favorable to success, a favoring circumstance" (the opposite of a disadvantage) is from late 15c. The tennis score sense is from 1640s (in the writings of John Milton). Phrase take advantage of is from late 14c. as "avail oneself of," also "impose upon." To have the advantage of (someone) "have superiority over" is from 1560s.
-ous
word-forming element making adjectives from nouns, meaning "having, full of, having to do with, doing, inclined to," from Old French -ous, -eux, from Latin -osus (compare -ose (1)). In chemistry, "having a lower valence than forms expressed in -ic."