avarie

See also: avarié

French

Etymology

From Middle French/Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria (compare modern Italian avaria); ultimately from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.va.ʁi/

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Noun

avarie f (plural avaries)

1. damage (to a vessel or goods it is carrying)
2. deterioration

Related terms

• avarié

Descendants

• → Romanian: avarie

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

avarie f

1. plural of avaria

Anagrams

• aeravi, vaiare, vaierà

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Italian avaria, of probable Arabic origin.

Noun

avarie oblique singular, f (oblique plural avaries, nominative singular avarie, nominative plural avaries)

1. damage done to goods on a watercraft when they are thrown overboard due to a risk of the watercraft capsizing

Descendants

• Middle French: avarie
  • French: avarie
    • → Romanian: avarie
  • → Middle English: average
    • English: average

References

• Etymology and history of “avarie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “avarie”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Portuguese

Verb

avarie

1. inflection of avariar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French avarie.

Noun

avarie f (plural avarii)

1. damage

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	avarie	avaria	avarii	avariile
genitive-dative	avarii	avariei	avarii	avariilor
vocative	avarie, avario		avariilor