pavo Latin · revision 3975

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpaː.woː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpaː.vo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pāvō''' ''m'' (genitive pāvōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably a word from the East, like [[grc|ταώς|tr=taṓs|t=peacock]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Wiktionary suggests it may be borrowed from the Greek or imitative.^(Wiktionary) An older and late form was [[m|la|pāvus]], used by Ennius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ennius uses the form ''pavus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler's first source for ''pāvō'' is Varro (116–27 BC).^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the peacock, the bird sacred to Juno, and its flesh was a favourite dish of the Romans, as in Cicero and Juvenal.^(Georges 1913) Columella distinguishes male and female, and Gellius calls the female ''pavo femina''.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Isidore says it is named from the sound of its cry and that its flesh hardly rots.^(Isidore) In medieval Latin it was also a stuff of bright colours and a bier shaped like a wheelbarrow.^(Köbler 2010)^(Niermeyer 1976) Romance kept it, as Spanish [[m|es|pavo]] and Italian [[m|it|pavone]].^(Wiktionary) English ''peacock'' has as its first part Old English ''pawa'', from Latin ''pavo''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses the form ''pavus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions peacock as food.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''peacock'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|peacock]], peafowl.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A brightly coloured cloth; a [[m|en|bier]].^(Köbler 2010)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|peacock]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}