pavo

See also: Pavo

Esperanto

Pavo.

Etymology

From Latin pāvō and Yiddish פּאַווע (pave), from Old High German pfāwo, from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (itself from Latin pāvō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.vo/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pa‧vo

Noun

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

1. peacock

Hyponyms

• pavidino (“female peachick”)
• pavido (“peachick”)
• pavino (“peahen, female peafowl”)
• virpavido (“male peachick”)
• virpavo (“male peafowl”)

Holonyms

• pavaro (“flock of peacocks (peafowls)”)

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Galician

un pavo (a turkey)

Etymology

From Latin pāvō.

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

1. turkey

Related terms

• pava
• pavón

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Latin

pāvō

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.u̯oː/, [ˈpäːu̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.vo/, [ˈpäːvo]

• Audio (Classical):

  (file)

Noun

pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis); third declension

1. peacock, peafowl; a bird associated with Argus and sacred to Hera; eaten as 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

• pāva
• pāvōnīnus
• gallopāvō

Descendants

• Eastern:
  • Aromanian: pãun
  • Romanian: păun
• Gallo-Italian:
  • Ligurian: pavun
• Iberian:
  • Old Leonese: pavu
    • Asturian: pavu
    • Leonese: pavu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pavon
    • Galician: pavo, pavón
    • Portuguese: pavão
  • Spanish: pavo, pavón
• East Iberian:
  • Old Occitan: pavon
    • Catalan: paó
    • Occitan: pavon
• Franco-Provençal: pavon
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: paòne
  • Italian: pavone
  • Sicilian: pavuni, paguni, pauni, pavu, pagu, pau
• Oïl:
  • Old French: paon, paoun, poun, pavon, pavoun, paue, peue
    • Middle French: paon
      • French: paon
      • → Breton: paun
      • → Welsh: paun
    • Norman: paon
    • Picard: paôn, pan
    • Walloon: pawon
• Rhaetian:
  • Friulian: pavon
  • Ladin: pavon
  • Romansch: pavun, pivun
• Sardinian: paboni, paone
• → Proto-Balto-Slavic: *pāwas
  • Latvian: pāvs
  • Lithuanian: povas
  • → Proto-Slavic: *pavъ (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-Germanic: *pāwô (see there for further descendants)

References

• “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.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pāvō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞o]

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

1. turkey
2. peacock
3. (slang) buck (dollar)
4. (slang) euro
5. (slang) moron, airhead, dummy, dope (dumb man)

Synonyms

• (turkey): chompipe (Mexico, Central America), guajolote (Mexico, Central America), guanajo (Cuba), pisco (Venezuela, Colombia)
• (peacock): pavo real

Derived terms

• edad del pavo
• no ser moco de pavo
• pava
• pavada
• pavo real
• pelar el pavo
• subírsele el pavo

 

Related terms

• pavón

Descendants

• → Asi: pabo
• → Cebuano: pabo
• → Chavacano: pabo
• → Tagalog: pabo

Further reading

• “pavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014