Avicenna
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From Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
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Avicenna
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Persian polymath
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Borrowed from Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
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Avicenna m
- Avicenna (Persian polymath (c. 980–1037))
- 13th century, “Ⅱ. Dell'aria, e conoscimento della bontà, e malizia sua [2. About the Air, and the Discernment of Its Goodness and Badness]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture][1], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 4:
- L'Aere, secondo Avicenna, è uno degli elementi delle cose generate
- Air is, according to Avicenna, one of the elements of the created things
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell][2], lines 140–144; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][3], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- […] e vidi Orfeo,
Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale;
Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo,
Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno,
Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.- and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.
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- Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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From Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.u̯iˈken.na/, [äu̯ɪˈkɛnːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃen.na/, [äviˈt͡ʃɛnːä]
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Avicenna m sg (genitive Avicennae); first declension
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First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Avicenna |
Genitive | Avicennae |
Dative | Avicennae |
Accusative | Avicennam |
Ablative | Avicennā |
Vocative | Avicenna |