Avicenna
English
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
Proper noun
Avicenna
Derived terms
Translations
Persian polymath
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Anagrams
Italian
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
- 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][1], 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
- 1300s–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.
Derived terms
Further reading
- Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
Etymology
From Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.wɪˈkɛn.na]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.viˈt͡ʃɛn.na]
Proper noun
Avicenna m sg (genitive Avicennae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Avicenna |
| genitive | Avicennae |
| dative | Avicennae |
| accusative | Avicennam |
| ablative | Avicennā |
| vocative | Avicenna |