See also: Avis, avís, āvis, avīs, avìș, and avis'

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English avys, from Old French avis.

NounEdit

avis

  1. (obsolete) advice; opinion; deliberation.

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

avis

  1. plural of avi

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French avis.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /aˈviːˀs/, [æˈʋiˀs̺]

NounEdit

avis c (singular definite avisen, plural indefinite aviser)

  1. (journalism) newspaper

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French avis, from vis, from Latin visus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /a.vi/
  • (file)

NounEdit

avis m (plural avis)

  1. opinion
    Synonym: opinion
  2. piece of advice
    Synonym: conseil
  3. notice

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Norwegian Bokmål: advis
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avis

Further readingEdit

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FriulianEdit

NounEdit

avis

  1. plural of ave

LatinEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

 
avis (a bird)

From Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀετός (aetós), and Sanskrit वि (), and Albanian vito (woodpidgeon).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

avis f (genitive avis); third declension

  1. a bird
    • ca. 833Nennius, Historia Brittonum, III, 54
      et vēnērunt ad eum avēs multī colōris innumerābilēs
      and came to him countless birds of many colors
  2. (figuratively) omen, portent
DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally ).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative avis avēs
Genitive avis avium
Dative avī avibus
Accusative avem avēs
avīs
Ablative ave
avī
avibus
Vocative avis avēs

The ablative singular is often avī in Ecclesiastical Latin.

SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Aragonese: au
  • Catalan: au
  • Galician: ave
  • Portuguese: ave
  • Sardinian: ave (Nuorese), ae (Logudorese)
  • Spanish: ave
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

avīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of avus

ReferencesEdit

  • avis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • avis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • avis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • avis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the omens are favourable to some one: aves (alites, oscines) addīcunt alicui (opp. abdicunt aliquid)

LatvianEdit

NounEdit

avis f

  1. nominative plural form of avs
  2. vocative plural form of avs
  3. accusative plural form of avs

LithuanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *áwis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

avìs f (plural ãvys) stress pattern 4

  1. sheep (female sheep and generic term)

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Derived termsEdit

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Northern KurdishEdit

Central Kurdish ئاوس(awis)

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Iranian *āpuθra- (pregnant), from *puθráh (son), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *putrás (boy; son), from Proto-Indo-European *putlós. Cognate with Persian آبستن(âbestan).

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

avis (not comparable, Arabic spelling ئاڤس‎)

  1. pregnant

ReferencesEdit

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “avis”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 19

Northern SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈaviːs/

NounEdit

avis

  1. locative singular of avvi

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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Woman reading newspapers.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /aˈʋiːs/
  • Rhymes: -iːs
  • Hyphenation: av‧is

Etymology 1Edit

From French avis (opinion, notice; piece of advise), from Middle French advis (opinion), from Old French avis (opinion), from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin vīsum (vision, image). Doublet of advis.

Cognate with Danish avis, Italian avviso, Middle English avys and English avis.

NounEdit

avis f or m (definite singular avisa or avisen, indefinite plural aviser, definite plural avisene)

  1. (journalism) a newspaper (a publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles)
    • 1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 242:
      du mener nok ikke, vi holder aviser
      you probably do not mean, we keep newspapers
    • 1877, Henrik Ibsen, Samfundets støtter, page 60:
      der vil blive skrevet korrespondencer i aviserne i nabobyerne
      correspondence will be written in the newspapers of the neighboring towns
    • 1890, Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, page 124:
      generalen sad … og læste aviserne
      the general sat… and read the newspapers
    • 1994, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsuns brev I, page 202:
      hun har nemlig havt en historie og har staaet i aviserne nylig
      she has had a story and has been in the newspapers recently
    • 1993, Knut Faldbakken, Ormens år, page 19:
      jeg abonnerer på åtte aviserjeg abonnerer på åtte aviser
      I subscribe to eight newspapers
    • 1995, Ebba Haslund, I mangel av sverd, page 181:
      bunker med illegale aviser
      piles of illegal newspapers
    • 2001, Lars Saabye Christensen, Halvbroren, page 216:
      hun hadde gått for å hente avisen
      she had gone to get the newspaper
    • 1934 October 9, Folkeviljen, page 3:
      et gammelt munnheld sier «ikke et ord i avisen» om noe som skal være topphemmelig
      an old saying goes "not a word in the newspaper" about something that should be top secret
    • 1935 September 17, Folkebladet, page 4:
      foreløbig må avisene ikke vite noe om dette. Altså ikke et ord i avisen om at vi følger et nytt spor
      for the time being, the newspapers must not know anything about this. In other words, not a word in the newspaper that we are following a new path
    ikke et ord i avisenkeep something secret
    Synonyms: avisblad, blad, tidende, tidning
  2. (media) a financial enterprise that consists of publishing a newspaper; newspaper agency
    hun er ansatt i en avis
    she is employed by a newspaper
  3. (business) an office where the newspaper editorial office is located
    han gikk ned i avisen for å snakke med redaktøren
    he went down to the newspaper to talk to the editor
Derived termsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

avis

  1. imperative of avise

ReferencesEdit

  • “avis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “avis” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • avis” in Store norske leksikon

AnagramsEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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Bergens Tidende, 30 January 1871

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French avis.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

avis f (definite singular avisa, indefinite plural aviser, definite plural avisene)

  1. a newspaper

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visum (vision, image).

NounEdit

avis m (oblique plural avis, nominative singular avis, nominative plural avis)

  1. opinion

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DescendantsEdit

SwedishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Clipping of avundsjuk (jealous) +‎ -is.

AdjectiveEdit

avis (comparative mer avis, superlative mest avis)

  1. (colloquial) jelly, jealous
DeclensionEdit

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

NounEdit

avis

  1. indefinite genitive singular of avi.

AnagramsEdit