pavo

From Latin pāvō and Yiddish פּאַווע (pave).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.vo/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧vo

pavo (accusative singular pavon, plural pavoj, accusative plural pavojn)

1. peafowl (male or female)
2. peacock (male or of unspecified sex)
   • 1926, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by L. L. Zamenhof, Fabeloj de Andersen, translation of original in Danish, ch. 14:

     En la herbo apude staris amaso da pavoj kun etenditaj radiantaj vostoj.

     In the grass a group of peacocks with extended, radiant tails stood next to one another.

• pavidino (“female peachick”)
• pavido (“peachick”)
• pavino (“peahen, female peafowl”)
• virpavido (“male peachick”)
• virpavo (“peacock, male peafowl”)

• pavaro (“flock of peafowls”)

From Latin pāvō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Hyphenation: pa‧vo

pavo m (plural pavos)

1. turkey

• pava
• pavón

Likely borrowed from Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs, “peacock”), or possibly imitative (compare paupulō (“to call like a peacock”)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.vo]

pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis); third declension

1. peacock, peafowl; a bird associated with Argus and sacred to Hera or Juno; eaten as a delicacy.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.177:

     et praeter pennās nihil in pāvōne placēbat

     and, besides the feathers, nothing in the peacock was pleasing
     (In other words, an ancient time before the bird was considered a delicacy.)

Third-declension noun.

• pāva
• pavonius
• pāvōnīnus
• gallopāvō

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1148: “il pavone” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• “pavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pavo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pavo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Inherited from Latin pāvō. Doublet of pavón.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞o]

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• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: pa‧vo

pavo m (plural pavos)

1. turkey

   Synonyms: (Mexico) guajolote, (Central America) chumpe, (Central America) chompipe, (Cuba) guanajo, (Colombia, Venezuela) pisco, (New Mexico) gallina de la sierra

2. peacock

   Synonym: pavo real

3. (slang) buck (dollar)
4. (slang) euro
5. (slang) moron, airhead, dummy, dope (dumb man)

• → Asi: pabo
• → Cebuano: pabo
• → Chavacano: pabo
• → Tagalog: pabo

• “pavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “pavo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010