avise

English edit

Verb edit

avise (third-person singular simple present avises, present participle avising, simple past and past participle avised)

Obsolete spelling of advise
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 282:
  Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched bee,
  Auise thee well, and chaunge thy wilfull mood,
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  Be auis’d sir, and passe good humours:

Derived terms edit

Anagrams edit

Eavis, e-visa, evisa, sieva

French edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /a.viz/
Homophones: avisent, avises

Verb edit

avise

inflection of aviser:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

Galician edit

Verb edit

avise

inflection of avisar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From av +‎ ise.

Verb edit

avise (imperative avis, present tense aviser, passive avises, simple past aviset or aviste, past participle aviset or avist, present participle avisende)

to defrost, de-ice
Common misspelling of avvise.

Usage notes edit

In actual usage the simple past and past participle is usually aviset, rather than aviste and avist respectively as given in the reference.

References edit

“avise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Alternative forms edit

avisa (a-infinitive)

Etymology edit

Calque of English defrost. From av- +‎ ise.

Verb edit

avise (present tense avisar/aviser, past tense avisa/aviste, past participle avisa/avist, passive infinitive avisast, present participle avisande, imperative avise/avis)