pavone
See also: Pavone
English
Etymology
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
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈvo.ne/
- Rhymes: -one
- Hyphenation: pa‧vó‧ne
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Noun
pavone m (plural pavoni, feminine pavona or pavonessa)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: пау́н (paún)
- → Macedonian: паун (paun)
- → Sardinian: pavoni, povoni (Campidanese)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “paòne”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
pāvōne
- ablative singular of pāvō
Spanish
Verb
pavone
- inflection of pavonar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative