Pavo .FromLatin pāvō andYiddish פּאַווע ( pave ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈpa.vo/ Hyphenation:pa ‧vo pavo (accusative singular pavon ,plural pavoj ,accusative plural pavojn )
peafowl ( male or female ) peacock ( male or of unspecified sex ) 1926 ,Hans Christian Andersen , translated byL. L. Zamenhof ,Fabeloj de Andersen , translation of original in Danish,ch. 14 :En la herbo apude staris amaso dapavoj kun etenditaj radiantaj vostoj. In the grass a group ofpeacocks with extended, radiant tails stood next to one another. un pavo (a turkey) FromLatin pāvō .
IPA (key ) : /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞ʊ] Rhymes:-abo Hyphenation:pa‧vo pavo m (plural pavos )
turkey pāvō Likely borrowed fromAncient Greek ταώς ( taṓs ,“ peacock ” ) , or possiblyimitative (comparepaupulō ( “ to call like a peacock ” ) ).
pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis ) ;third declension
peacock ,peafowl ; a bird associated withArgus andsacred toHera orJuno ; eaten as a delicacy.8CE ,
Ovid ,
Fasti 6.177 :
et praeter pennās nihilin pāvōne placēbat and, besides the feathers, nothingin the peacock was pleasing (In other words, an ancient time before the bird was considered adelicacy .)Third-declension noun.
Balkan Romance: Italo-Romance: Insular Romance: North Italian: Ibero-Romance: Gallo-Romance: Occitano-Romance: Borrowings:→ Latvian:pāvs → Lithuanian:povas → Proto-Germanic:*pāwô (see there for further descendants ) AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland ] –map 1148: “il pavone” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it “pavo ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “pavo ”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "pavo ", 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) pavo inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Inherited fromLatin pāvō .Doublet ofpavón .
IPA (key ) : /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞o] Rhymes:-abo Syllabification:pa‧vo pavo m (plural pavos )
turkey Synonyms: ( Mexico ) guajolote ,( Central America ) chumpe ,( Central America ) chompipe ,( Cuba ) guanajo ,( Colombia, Venezuela ) pisco ,( New Mexico ) gallina de la sierra peacock Synonym: pavo real ( slang ) buck ( dollar ) ( slang ) euro ( slang ) moron ,airhead ,dummy ,dope ( dumb man )