pavone
See also: Pavone
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
pavone (plural pavones)
- (obsolete, rare) A peacock.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Wings it had with sundry colours dight, / More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan […]
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pavone m (plural pavoni, feminine pavona or pavonessa)
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Derived terms
Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: пау́н (paún)
- → Macedonian: паун (paun)
- → Sardinian: pavoni, povoni (Campidanese)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading edit
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “paòne”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
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pāvōne
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Verb edit
pavone
- inflection of pavonar: