pavo

See also: Pavo

Esperanto
Pavo.

Etymology

From Latin pāvō and Yiddish פּאַווע (pave).

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

Noun

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

  1. peafowl (male or female)
  2. 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
  • pavidino (“female peachick”)
  • pavido (“peachick”)
  • pavino (“peahen, female peafowl”)
  • virpavido (“male peachick”)
  • virpavo (“peacock, male peafowl”)

Holonyms
  • pavaro (“flock of peafowls”)

Galician
un pavo (a turkey)

Etymology

From Latin pāvō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -abo
  • Hyphenation: pa‧vo

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

  1. turkey

Latin
pāvō

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs, “peacock”), or possibly imitative (compare paupulō (“to call like a peacock”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis); third declension

  1. peacock, peafowl; a bird associated with Argus and sacred to Hera or Juno; eaten as a delicacy.
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.177:
      et praeter pennās nihil in pāvōne placēbat
      and, besides the feathers, nothing in the peacock was pleasing
      (In other words, an ancient time before the bird was considered a delicacy.)

Declension

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

Descendants

References
  • 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
  • “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

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pāvō. Doublet of pavón.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞o]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -abo
  • Syllabification: pa‧vo

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

  1. turkey
    Synonyms: (Mexico) guajolote, (Central America) chumpe, (Central America) chompipe, (Cuba) guanajo, (Colombia, Venezuela) pisco, (New Mexico) gallina de la sierra
  2. peacock
    Synonym: pavo real
  3. (slang) buck (dollar)
  4. (slang) euro
  5. (slang) moron, airhead, dummy, dope (dumb man)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading
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