pavone

See also: Pavone

English

Etymology

From Italian pavone.

Noun

pavone (plural pavones)

(obsolete, rare) A peacock.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Wings it had with sundry colours dight, / More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan […]

Italian

Alternative forms

paone

Etymology

From Latin pāvōnem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paˈvo.ne/
Rhymes: -one
Hyphenation: pa‧vó‧ne
Audio (file)

Noun

pavone m (plural pavoni, feminine pavona or pavonessa)

peacock, peafowl

Derived terms

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: пау́н (paún)
→ Macedonian: паун (paun)
→ Sardinian: pavoni, povoni (Campidanese)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: паун

Latin script: paun

Further reading

Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “paòne”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Anagrams

penavo, poneva

Latin

Noun

pāvōne

ablative singular of pāvō

Spanish

Verb

pavone

inflection of pavonar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

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