Avicenna
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛnə
Proper noun
Avicenna
Derived terms
Translations
Persian polymath
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Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Avicenna m
- Avicenna (Persian polymath (c. 980–1037))
- 13th century, “Ⅱ. Dell'aria, e conoscimento della bontà, e malizia sua [2. About the Air, and the Discernment of Its Goodness and Badness]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture][1], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 4:
- L'Aere, secondo Avicenna, è uno degli elementi delle cose generate
- Air is, according to Avicenna, one of the elements of the created things
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto Ⅳ”, in La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, page 64, lines 140–144:
- […] 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.
Derived terms
Further reading
- Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
Etymology
From Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /a.u̯iˈken.na/, [äu̯ɪˈkɛnːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃen.na/, [äviˈt͡ʃɛnːä]
Proper noun
Avicenna m sg (genitive Avicennae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Avicenna |
Genitive | Avicennae |
Dative | Avicennae |
Accusative | Avicennam |
Ablative | Avicennā |
Vocative | Avicenna |
Descendants
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