pavone

See also: Pavone

English

Etymology

From Italian pavone.

Noun

pavone (plural pavones)

1. (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

• paone

Etymology

From Latin pāvōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈvo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: pa‧vó‧ne

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Noun

pavone m (plural pavoni, feminine pavona or pavonessa)

1. peacock, peafowl

Derived terms

Derived terms

• pavone blu
• pavone comune
• pavoneggiarsi
• pavonesco

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: пау́н (paún)
• → Macedonian: паун (paun)
• → Sardinian: pavoni, povoni (Campidanese)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: паун

  Latin script: paun

Further reading

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “paòne”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Anagrams

• penavo, poneva

Latin

Noun

pāvōne

1. ablative singular of pāvō

Spanish

Verb

pavone

1. inflection of pavonar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative