pavo

See also: Pavo

Esperanto
Pavo.

Etymology

From Latin pāvō and Yiddish פּאַווע‎ (pave), from Old High German pfāwo, from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (itself from Latin pāvō).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.vo/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pa‧vo

Noun

pavo (accusative singular pavon, plural pavoj, accusative plural pavojn)

  1. peacock
    • 1926, L. L. Zamenhof, Fabeloj de Andersen, translation of original by Hans Christian Andersen, 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
  • pavidino (“female peachick”)
  • pavido (“peachick”)
  • pavino (“peahen, female peafowl”)
  • virpavido (“male peachick”)
  • virpavo (“male peafowl”)

Holonyms
  • pavaro (“flock of peacocks (peafowls)”)

Galician
un pavo (a turkey)

Etymology

From Latin pāvō.

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

  1. turkey

Latin
pāvō

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs, “peacock”), of Oriental unknown origin[1], perhaps from Dravidian (compare Tamil தோகை (tōkai, “tail (of a peacock)”)) or a Turkic source (compare Turkish tavuk (“hen”)), or possibly imitative (compare Latin paupulō (“to call like a peacock”). Cognate with Hebrew טַוָּס‎ (ṭawwā́s), Aramaic טַוסָא‎ (ṭawsā), Arabic طَاوُوس‎ (ṭāwūs)).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.woː/
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis); third declension

  1. peacock, peafowl; a bird associated with Argus and sacred to Hera; eaten as a delicacy.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pāvō pāvōnēs
Genitive pāvōnis pāvōnum
Dative pāvōnī pāvōnibus
Accusative pāvōnem pāvōnēs
Ablative pāvōne pāvōnibus
Vocative pāvō pāvōnēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ταώς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1457
  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • pavo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pāvō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpabo/, [ˈpaβo]

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

  1. turkey
  2. peacock
  3. (slang) buck (dollar)
  4. (slang) euro
  5. (slang) moron, airhead, dummy, dope (dumb man)

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