avena

See also: Avena

Italian

Etymology

From Latin avēna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈve.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: a‧vé‧na

Noun

avena f (plural avene)

1. oats

Latin

Etymology

Probably a non-Indo-European substrate word. Cognate with Lithuanian aviža, Latvian auzas, and Proto-Slavic *ovьsъ.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈweː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈvɛː.na]

Noun

avēna f (genitive avēnae); first declension

1. oats
2. wild oats
3. straw
4. A shepherd's pipe

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	avēna	avēnae
genitive	avēnae	avēnārum
dative	avēnae	avēnīs
accusative	avēnam	avēnās
ablative	avēnā	avēnīs
vocative	avēna	avēnae

Derived terms

• avēnāceus
• avēnārius

Descendants

Descendants

• Old French: aveine
  • Bourguignon: aivoigne
  • Champenois: aoinne, avène, avouène
  • French: avoine
  • Norman: avaine
  • Picard: avin·ne
  • Walloon: avoenne
• Dalmatian: vun
• Friulian: vene
• Italian: avena
• Old Galician-Portuguese: avẽa
  • Fala: avea, vea
  • Galician: avea
  • Portuguese: aveia
• Romansh: avaina, avagna
• Sardinian: aena, avena, auena, ena
• Sicilian: aina, avina
• Spanish: avena
• Venetan: véna
• → Esperanto: aveno
• → Volapük: vaen

References

• “avena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "avena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “avena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbena/ [aˈβ̞e.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: a‧ve‧na

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin avēna.

Noun

avena f (plural avenas)

1. oat
2. oats
3. oatmeal porridge

Derived terms

• avena loca
• avenate
• leche de avena

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

avena

1. inflection of avenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “avena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025