alevin

See also: alevín

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French alevin.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ăl'-ə-vən, IPA^(key): /ˈæl.ə.vən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

alevin (plural alevins)

1. Newly hatched fish, especially salmon.

Translations

newly hatched fish

• Catalan: aleví (ca) m
• French: alevin (fr) m
• Portuguese: alevino (pt) m
• Spanish: alevín (es) m

Anagrams

• Lavine, alvine, leavin', levain, valine, veinal, venial, vineal

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *allevamen, equivalent to allevare +‎ -men; allevare ("to raise up") took on the sense of "to raise (young)" in Vulgar Latin under the influence of elevare (“to educate”). The -i- reflects the influence of nutrimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.vɛ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

alevin m (plural alevins)

1. alevin

Derived terms

• alevinage

Descendants

• → Catalan: aleví
• → English: alevin
• → Portuguese: alevino, → alevim
• → Spanish: alevín

Further reading

• “alevin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French alevin.

Noun

alevin m (plural alevini)

1. alevin

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	alevin	alevinul	alevini	alevinii
genitive-dative	alevin	alevinului	alevini	alevinilor
vocative	alevinule		alevinilor

Scots

Numeral

alevin

1. obsolete form of eleeven

References

• “alevin, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.