pavo

See also: Pavo

Esperanto

Pavo.

Etymology

From Latin pāvō and Yiddish פּאַווע (pave).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.vo/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pa‧vo

Noun

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

1. peafowl (male or female)
2. peacock (male or of unspecified sex)
   • 1926, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by L. L. Zamenhof, Fabeloj de Andersen, translation of original in Danish, ch. 14:

     En la herbo apude staris amaso da pavoj kun etenditaj radiantaj vostoj.

     In the grass a group of peacocks with extended, radiant tails stood next to one another.

Hyponyms

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

Holonyms

• pavaro (“flock of peafowls”)

Galician

un pavo (a turkey)

Etymology

From Latin pāvō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Hyphenation: pa‧vo

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

1. turkey

Related terms

• pava
• pavón

Latin

pāvō

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis); third declension

1. peacock, peafowl; a bird associated with Argus and sacred to Hera or Juno; eaten as a delicacy.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.177:

     et praeter pennās nihil in pāvōne placēbat

     and, besides the feathers, nothing in the peacock was pleasing
     (In other words, an ancient time before the bird was considered a delicacy.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pāvō	pāvōnēs
genitive	pāvōnis	pāvōnum
dative	pāvōnī	pāvōnibus
accusative	pāvōnem	pāvōnēs
ablative	pāvōne	pāvōnibus
vocative	pāvō	pāvōnēs

Derived terms

• pāva
• pavonius
• pāvōnīnus
• gallopāvō

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: pãun
  • Romanian: păun
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: paòne
  • Italian: pavone, paone
    • → Bulgarian: пау́н (paún)
    • → Macedonian: паун (paun)
    • → Sardinian: pavoni, povoni (Campidanese)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: паун

      Latin script: paun

  • Sicilian: pavuni, paguni, pauni, pavu, pagu, pau
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: paone, poni (Campidanese)
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: pavun
    • Lombard: pavon, paon
    • Piedmontese: pavon, paon
  • Friulian: pavon
  • Ladin: pavon
  • Romansch: pavun, pivun (Sursilvan), pavùn, pivùn (Sutsilvan), pivung (Surmiran)
  • Venetan: pavon, pavoni, paon, paoni
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: pavu
  • Leonese: pavu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pavo, pavon
    • Galician: pavo, pavón
    • Portuguese: pavão
  • Spanish: pavo, pavón
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: pavon
  • Old French: paon, paoun, poun, pavon, pavoun, paue, peue
    • French: paon
    • Norman: paon
    • Picard: paôn, pan
    • Walloon: pawon
    • → Breton: paun
    • → Welsh: paun
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: paó
  • Occitan: pavon
• Borrowings:
  • → Latvian: pāvs
  • → Lithuanian: povas
  • → Proto-Germanic: *pāwô (see there for further descendants)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1148: “il pavone” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Further reading

• “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.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pāvō. Doublet of pavón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞o]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: pa‧vo

Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)

1. turkey

   Synonyms: (Mexico) guajolote, (Central America) chumpe, (Central America) chompipe, (Cuba) guanajo, (Colombia, Venezuela) pisco, (New Mexico) gallina de la sierra

2. peacock

   Synonym: pavo real

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

Derived terms

• edad del pavo
• moco de pavo
• pava
• pavada
• pavo de matorral
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10