Avicenna
English
Alternative forms
- Ibn Sina, Ibn Sīnā
- Pur Sina, Pursina
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Avicennism
- avicennite
Translations
a Persian polymath
Italian
Etymology
From a Latinization of Persian ابن سينا (Ibn Sīnā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃɛn.na/, [äviˈt͡ʃɛn̺n̺ä]
- Rhymes: -ɛnna
- Stress: Avicènna
- Hyphenation: A‧vi‧cen‧na
Proper noun
Avicenna m
- Avicenna (Persian polymath, 980 ca. CE–1037 CE)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, lines 140–144, page 64:
- […] e vidi Orfeo, ¶ Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale; ¶ Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo, ¶ Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno, ¶ Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.
- and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.
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Derived terms
Further reading
Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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