FromLatinavēna.
avena f (pluralavene)
- oats
Probably a non-Indo-Europeansubstrate word. Cognate withLithuanianaviža,Latvianauzas, andProto-Slavic*ovьsъ.[1]
avēna f (genitiveavēnae);first declension
- oats
- wild oats
- straw
- A shepherd's pipe
First-declension noun.
- “avena”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “avena”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "avena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “avena”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008),Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN
- IPA(key): /aˈbena/[aˈβ̞e.na]
- Rhymes:-ena
- Syllabification:a‧ve‧na
Inherited fromLatinavēna.
avena f (pluralavenas)
- oat
- oats
- oatmealporridge
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
avena
- inflection ofavenar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
