pavo
See also: Pavo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pāvō and Yiddish פּאַווע (pave).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pavo (accusative singular pavon, plural pavoj, accusative plural pavojn)
- peafowl (male or female)
- peacock (male or of unspecified sex)
- 1926, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by L. L. Zamenhof, Fabeloj de Andersen, translation of original in Danish, ch. 14:
- En la herbo apude staris amaso da pavoj kun etenditaj radiantaj vostoj.
- In the grass a group of peacocks with extended, radiant tails stood next to one another.
Hyponyms edit
- pavidino (“female peachick”)
- pavido (“peachick”)
- pavino (“peahen, female peafowl”)
- virpavido (“male peachick”)
- virpavo (“peacock, male peafowl”)
Holonyms edit
- pavaro (“flock of peafowls”)
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pavo m (plural pavos)
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Likely borrowed from Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs, “peacock”), or possibly imitative (compare paupulō (“to call like a peacock”)).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.u̯oː/, [ˈpäːu̯oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.vo/, [ˈpäːvo]
Noun edit
pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pāvō | pāvōnēs |
Genitive | pāvōnis | pāvōnum |
Dative | pāvōnī | pāvōnibus |
Accusative | pāvōnem | pāvōnēs |
Ablative | pāvōne | pāvōnibus |
Vocative | pāvō | pāvōnēs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1148: “il pavone” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Further reading edit
- “pavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pavo 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)
- pavo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin pāvō. Doublet of pavón.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pavo m (plural pavos)
- turkey
- peacock
- Synonym: pavo real
- (slang) buck (dollar)
- (slang) euro
- (slang) moron, airhead, dummy, dope (dumb man)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “pavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014