# pavo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin pāvō and Yiddish פּאַווע (pave).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.vo/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pa‧vo

### Noun

pavo (accusative singular pavon, plural pavoj, accusative plural pavojn)
* peafowl (male or female)
* peacock (male or of unspecified sex)
** 1926, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by L. L. Zamenhof, Fabeloj de Andersen, translation of original in Danish, ch. 14:En la herbo apude staris amaso da pavoj kun etenditaj radiantaj vostoj.In the grass a group of peacocks with extended, radiant tails stood next to one another.

#### Hyponyms

* pavidino (“female peachick”)
* pavido (“peachick”)
* pavino (“peahen, female peafowl”)
* virpavido (“male peachick”)
* virpavo (“peacock, male peafowl”)

#### Holonyms

* pavaro (“flock of peafowls”)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin pāvō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞ʊ]
* Rhymes: -abo
* Hyphenation: pa‧vo

### Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)
* turkey

#### Related terms

* pava
* pavón

## Latin
### Etymology

Likely borrowed from Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs, “peacock”), or possibly imitative (compare paupulō (“to call like a peacock”)).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpaː.u̯oː/, [ˈpäːu̯oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpa.vo/, [ˈpäːvo]

### Noun

pāvō m (genitive pāvōnis); third declension
* peacock, peafowl; a bird associated with Argus and sacred to Hera or Juno; eaten as a delicacy.
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.177:et praeter pennās nihil in pāvōne placēbatand, besides the feathers, nothing in the peacock was pleasing (In other words, an ancient time before the bird was considered a delicacy.)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* pāva
* pavonius
* pāvōnīnus
* gallopāvō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: pãun
** Romanian: păun
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: paòne
** Italian: pavone, paone
*** → Bulgarian: пау́н (paún)
*** → Macedonian: паун (paun)
*** → Sardinian: pavoni, povoni (Campidanese)
*** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: паун
    Latin script: paun
** Sicilian: pavuni, paguni, pauni, pavu, pagu, pau
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: paone, poni (Campidanese)
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: pavun
*** Lombard: pavon, paon
*** Piedmontese: pavon, paon
** Friulian: pavon
** Ladin: pavon
** Romansch: pavun, pivun (Sursilvan), pavùn, pivùn (Sutsilvan), pivung (Surmiran)
** Venetan: pavon, pavoni, paon, paoni
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: pavu
** Leonese: pavu
** Old Galician-Portuguese: pavo, pavon
*** Galician: pavo, pavón
*** Portuguese: pavão
** Spanish: pavo, pavón
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: pavon
** Old French: paon, paoun, poun, pavon, pavoun, paue, peue
*** French: paon
*** Norman: paon
*** Picard: paôn, pan
*** Walloon: pawon
*** → Breton: paun
*** → Welsh: paun
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: paó
** Occitan: pavon
* Borrowings:
** → Latvian: pāvs
** → Lithuanian: povas
** → Proto-Germanic: *pāwô (see there for further descendants)

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1148: “il pavone” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

### Further reading

* “pavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pavo 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)
* pavo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pāvō. Doublet of pavón.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpabo/ [ˈpa.β̞o]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -abo
* Syllabification: pa‧vo

### Noun

pavo m (plural pavos)
* turkey
    Synonyms: (Mexico) guajolote, (Central America) chumpe, (Central America) chompipe, (Cuba) guanajo, (Colombia, Venezuela) pisco, (New Mexico) gallina de la sierra
* peacock
    Synonym: pavo real
* (slang) buck (dollar)
* (slang) euro
* (slang) moron, airhead, dummy, dope (dumb man)

#### Derived terms

* edad del pavo
* moco de pavo
* pava
* pavada
* pavo de matorral
* pavo real
* pelar el pavo
* subírsele el pavo

#### Related terms

* pavón

#### Descendants

* → Asi: pabo
* → Cebuano: pabo
* → Chavacano: pabo
* → Tagalog: pabo

### Further reading

* “pavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “pavo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010