avena

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin avēna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈve.na/
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Hyphenation: a‧vé‧na

Noun

avena f (plural avene)

  1. oats

Latin

Etymology

Probably a non-Indo-European substrate word. Cognate with Lithuanian aviža, Latvian auzas, and Proto-Slavic *ovьsъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

avēna f (genitive avēnae); first declension

  1. oats
  2. wild oats
  3. straw
  4. A shepherd's pipe

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative avēna avēnae
Genitive avēnae avēnārum
Dative avēnae avēnīs
Accusative avēnam avēnās
Ablative avēnā avēnīs
Vocative avēna avēnae

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants

References

  • “avena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “avena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • avena 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)
  • avena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbena/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Syllabification: a‧ve‧na

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin avēna.

Noun

avena f (plural avenas)

  1. oat
  2. oats
  3. oatmeal porridge
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

avena

  1. inflection of avenar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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