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avis

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

English Edit

Etymology Edit

From Middle English avys, from Old French avis.

Noun Edit

avis

  1. (obsolete) advice; opinion; deliberation.

Anagrams Edit

Catalan Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

avis

  1. plural of avi

Danish Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from French avis.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /aˈviːˀs/, [æˈʋiˀs̺]

Noun Edit

avis c (singular definite avisen, plural indefinite aviser)

  1. (journalism) newspaper

Declension Edit

Declension of avis
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative avis avisen aviser aviserne
genitive avis' avisens avisers avisernes

References Edit

French Edit

Etymology Edit

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

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /a.vi/
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Noun Edit

avis m (plural avis)

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

Derived terms Edit

Descendants Edit

  • → Norwegian Bokmål: advis
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: avis

Further reading Edit

Anagrams Edit

Friulian Edit

Noun Edit

avis

  1. plural of ave

Latin Edit

 
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Etymology 1 Edit

 
avis (a bird)

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

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

avis f (genitive avis); third declension

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

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

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.

Synonyms Edit
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
  • Aragonese: au
  • Catalan: au
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ave
  • Sardinian: ave (Nuorese), ae (Logudorese)
  • Old Spanish: ave
See also Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

avīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of avus

References Edit

  • “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)

Latvian Edit

Noun Edit

avis f

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of avs

Lithuanian Edit

Etymology Edit

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

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

avìs f (plural ãvys) stress pattern 4

  1. sheep (female sheep and generic term)

Declension Edit

declension of avis
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) avìs ãvys
genitive (kilmininkas) aviẽs avių̃
dative (naudininkas) ãviai avìms
accusative (galininkas) ãvį avìs
instrumental (įnagininkas) avimì avimìs
locative (vietininkas) avyjè avysè
vocative (šauksmininkas) aviẽ ãvys

Derived terms Edit

terms derived from "avìs"

See also Edit

Northern Kurdish Edit

Central Kurdish ئاوس‎ (awis)

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

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).

Pronunciation Edit

Adjective Edit

avis (not comparable, Arabic spelling ئاڤس‎)

  1. pregnant (of animals only; taboo for humans)

References Edit

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

Northern Sami Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈaviːs/

Noun Edit

avis

  1. locative singular of avvi

Norwegian Bokmål Edit

 
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Woman reading newspapers.

Pronunciation Edit

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

Etymology 1 Edit

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.

Noun Edit

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)
    Synonyms: avisblad, blad, tidende, tidning
    ikke et ord i avisen ― keep something secret
    • 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
  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 terms Edit
Descendants Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

Verb Edit

avis

  1. imperative of avise

References Edit

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

Anagrams Edit

Norwegian Nynorsk Edit

 
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Bergens Tidende, 30 January 1871

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from French avis.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

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

  1. a newspaper

Derived terms Edit

References Edit

Old French Edit

Etymology Edit

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

Noun Edit

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

  1. opinion

Synonyms Edit

Descendants Edit

Swedish Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Clipping of avundsjuk (“jealous”) +‎ -is.

Adjective Edit

avis (comparative mer avis, superlative mest avis)

  1. (colloquial) jelly, jealous
Declension Edit

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

Etymology 2 Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun Edit

avis

  1. indefinite genitive singular of avi

Anagrams Edit

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