avena

See also: Avena

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.[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    avēna f (genitive avēnae); first declension

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

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative avēna avēnae
    genitive avēnae avēnārum
    dative avēnae avēnīs
    accusative avēnam avēnās
    ablative avēnā avēnīs
    vocative avēna avēnae

    Derived terms

    • avēnāceus
    • avēnārius

    Descendants

    Descendants
    • Old French: aveine
    • Dalmatian: vun
    • Friulian: vene
    • Italian: avena
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: avẽa
    • Romansh: avaina, avagna
    • Sardinian: aena, avena, auena, ena
    • Sicilian: aina, avina
    • Spanish: avena
    • Venetan: véna
    • → Esperanto: aveno
    • → Volapük: vaen

    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, 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

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /aˈbena/ [aˈβ̞e.na]
    • 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

        Further reading

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