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avis

See also: Avis, avís, āvis, avīs, avìș, and avis'

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English avys, from Old French avis.

Noun

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avis

  1. (obsolete) advice; opinion; deliberation.

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avis

  1. plural of avi

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French avis.

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  • IPA(key): /aˈviːˀs/, [æˈʋiˀs̺]

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avis c (singular definite avisen, plural indefinite aviser)

  1. (journalism) newspaper

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Declension of avis
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative avis avisen aviser aviserne
genitive avis' avisens avisers avisernes

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French avis, from vis, from Latin visus.

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  • IPA(key): /a.vi/
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Noun

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avis m (plural avis)

  1. opinion
    Synonym: opinion
  2. piece of advice
    Synonym: conseil
  3. notice

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Descendants

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  • → Norwegian Bokmål: advis
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: avis

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Friulian

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avis

  1. plural of ave

Latin

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Etymology 1

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avis (a bird)

    From Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀετός (aetós), and Sanskrit वि (ví), and Albanian vito (“woodpidgeon”).

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    avis f (genitive avis); third declension

    1. a bird
      Synonym: ales
    2. (figuratively) omen, portent
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    Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative avis avēs
    Genitive avis avium
    Dative avī avibus
    Accusative avem avēs
    avīs
    Ablative ave
    avī     		avibus
    Vocative avis avēs

    The ablative singular is often avī in Ecclesiastical Latin.

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    • Aragonese: au
    • Catalan: au
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: ave
    • Sardinian: ave (Nuorese), ae (Logudorese)
    • Old Spanish: ave
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    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    avīs

    1. dative/ablative plural of avus

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    • “avis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “avis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • avis 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)
    • avis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • the omens are favourable to some one: aves (alites, oscines) addīcunt alicui (opp. abdicunt aliquid)

    Latvian

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    Noun

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    avis f

    1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of avs

    Lithuanian

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Balto-Slavic *áwis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis.

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    avìs f (plural ãvys) stress pattern 4

    1. sheep (female sheep and generic term)

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    Declension of avìs
    singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
    nominative (vardininkas) avìs ãvys
    genitive (kilmininkas) aviẽs avių̃
    dative (naudininkas) ãviai avìms
    accusative (galininkas) ãvį avìs
    instrumental (įnagininkas) avimì avimìs
    locative (vietininkas) avyjè avysè
    vocative (šauksmininkas) aviẽ ãvys

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    terms derived from "avìs"

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    Northern Kurdish

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    Central Kurdish ئاوس (awis)

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    From Proto-Iranian *āpuθra- (“pregnant”), from *puθráh (“son”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *putrás (“boy; son”), from Proto-Indo-European *putlós. Cognate with Persian آبستن (âbestan).

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    avis (not comparable, Arabic spelling ئاڤس)

    1. pregnant (of animals only; taboo for humans)

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    • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “avis”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 19

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    Pronunciation

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    • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈaviːs/

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    avis

    1. locative singular of avvi

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Woman reading newspapers.

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    • IPA(key): /aˈʋiːs/
    • Rhymes: -iːs
    • Hyphenation: av‧is

    Etymology 1

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    From French avis (“opinion, notice; piece of advise”), from Middle French advis (“opinion”), from Old French avis (“opinion”), from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin vīsum (“vision, image”). Doublet of advis.

    Cognate with Danish avis, Italian avviso, Middle English avys and English avis.

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    avis f or m (definite singular avisa or avisen, indefinite plural aviser, definite plural avisene)

    1. (journalism) a newspaper (a publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles)
      Synonyms: avisblad, blad, tidende, tidning
      ikke et ord i avisen ― keep something secret
      • 1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 242:
        du mener nok ikke, vi holder aviser
        you probably do not mean, we keep newspapers
      • 1877, Henrik Ibsen, Samfundets støtter, page 60:
        der vil blive skrevet korrespondencer i aviserne i nabobyerne
        correspondence will be written in the newspapers of the neighboring towns
      • 1890, Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, page 124:
        generalen sad … og læste aviserne
        the general sat… and read the newspapers
      • 1994, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsuns brev I, page 202:
        hun har nemlig havt en historie og har staaet i aviserne nylig
        she has had a story and has been in the newspapers recently
      • 1993, Knut Faldbakken, Ormens år, page 19:
        jeg abonnerer på åtte aviserjeg abonnerer på åtte aviser
        I subscribe to eight newspapers
      • 1995, Ebba Haslund, I mangel av sverd, page 181:
        bunker med illegale aviser
        piles of illegal newspapers
      • 2001, Lars Saabye Christensen, Halvbroren, page 216:
        hun hadde gått for å hente avisen
        she had gone to get the newspaper
      • 1934 October 9, Folkeviljen, page 3:
        et gammelt munnheld sier «ikke et ord i avisen» om noe som skal være topphemmelig
        an old saying goes "not a word in the newspaper" about something that should be top secret
      • 1935 September 17, Folkebladet, page 4:
        foreløbig må avisene ikke vite noe om dette. Altså ikke et ord i avisen om at vi følger et nytt spor
        for the time being, the newspapers must not know anything about this. In other words, not a word in the newspaper that we are following a new path
    2. (media) a financial enterprise that consists of publishing a newspaper; newspaper agency
      hun er ansatt i en avis
      she is employed by a newspaper
    3. (business) an office where the newspaper editorial office is located
      han gikk ned i avisen for å snakke med redaktøren
      he went down to the newspaper to talk to the editor
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    Verb

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    avis

    1. imperative of avise

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    • “avis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
    • “avis” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
    • “avis” in Store norske leksikon

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Bergens Tidende, 30 January 1871

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    Borrowed from French avis.

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    avis f (definite singular avisa, indefinite plural aviser, definite plural avisene)

    1. a newspaper

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    Old French

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    Etymology

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    From the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visum (“vision, image”).

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    avis oblique singular, m (oblique plural avis, nominative singular avis, nominative plural avis)

    1. opinion

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    Swedish

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    Etymology 1

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    Clipping of avundsjuk (“jealous”) +‎ -is.

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    avis (comparative mer avis, superlative mest avis)

    1. (colloquial) jelly, jealous
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    Invariable, not used in the definite form.

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    avis

    1. indefinite genitive singular of avi

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