avis

avis

1. (obsolete) advice; opinion; deliberation.

• IVAs, Siva, VISA, Vias, Visa, vias, visa

avis

1. plural of avi

Borrowed from French avis.

avis c (singular definite avisen, plural indefinite aviser)

1. (journalism) newspaper

• “avis” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /a.vi/

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avis m (plural avis)

1. opinion
2. piece of advice
3. notice

• (opinion): opinion
• (piece of advice): conseil

• “avis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• vais
• visa

avis

1. plural of ave

avis (a bird)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.wis/, [ˈa.wɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vis/, [ˈaː.vis]

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avis f (genitive avis); third declension

1. a bird
   • ca. 833 — Nennius, Historia Brittonum, III, 54

     et vēnērunt ad eum avēs multī colōris innumerābilēs

     and came to him countless birds of many colors

2. (figuratively) omen, portent

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

The ablative singular is often avī in Ecclesiastical Latin.

• (a bird): ales

• aucellus (Late Latin) (see for further Romance descendants)

• passer

Inflected form of avus (“grandfather”)

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.wiːs/

avīs

1. dative/ablative plural of avus

• 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, 1883–1887)
• avis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the omens are favourable to some one: aves (alites, oscines) addīcunt alicui (opp. abdicunt aliquid)
    

avis f

1. nominative plural form of avs
2. vocative plural form of avs
3. accusative plural form of avs

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

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈʋɪs]

avìs f (plural ãvys) stress pattern 4

1. sheep (female sheep and generic term)

• ė́ras
• aviẽtė
• tẽkis

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈaviːs/

avis

1. locative singular of avvi

• IPA^(key): /ɑʋiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

Borrowed from French avis.

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

1. a newspaper

avis

1. imperative of avise

• “avis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French avis.

• IPA^(key): /ɑʋiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

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

1. a newspaper

• “avis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

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

1. opinion

• vis (more common)
• opinion

• Italian: avviso
• Middle English: avys
  • English: avis
• Middle French: advis
  • French: avis

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

avis (comparative mer avis, superlative mest avis)

1. (colloquial) jelly, jealous

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

avis

1. indefinite genitive singular of avi