Avicenna

English

Avicenna in a miniature

Alternative forms

  • Ebn-e Sina, Ibn Sina, Ibn Sīnā, Pur-e Sina, Pursina, Auicen

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌævɪˈsɛnə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnə

Proper noun

Avicenna

  1. Persian polymath (c. 980–1037).

Derived terms

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Anagrams

Italian

miniatura di Avicenna

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃɛn.na/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnna
  • Hyphenation: A‧vi‧cèn‧na

Proper noun

Avicenna m

  1. Avicenna (Persian polymath (c. 980–1037))
    • 13th century, “Ⅱ. Dell'aria, e conoscimento della bontà, e malizia sua [2. About the Air, and the Discernment of Its Goodness and Badness]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 4:
      L'Aere, secondo Avicenna, è uno degli elementi delle cose generate
      Air is, according to Avicenna, one of the elements of the created things
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 140–144; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      [] e vidi Orfeo,
      Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale;
      Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo,
      Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno,
      Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.
      and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and ⁠Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.

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Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Avicenna m sg (genitive Avicennae); first declension

  1. Avicenna

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Avicenna
Genitive Avicennae
Dative Avicennae
Accusative Avicennam
Ablative Avicennā
Vocative Avicenna

Descendants

  • English: Avicenna
  • French: Avicenne
  • Polish: Awicenna
  • Russian: Авиценна (Avicenna)
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