Translingual

Avena sativa

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Avena f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – grasses, including the common oat; the oat grasses.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; Pooideae - subfamily; Aveneae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Avena sativa (common oat) - type species; Avena abyssinica (Ethiopian oat), Avena byzantina, Avena nuda (naked oat or hulless oat), Avena strigos (lopsided oat, bristle oat, black oat) - other cultivated species; Avena barbata (slender wild oat), Avena brevis (short oat), Avena fatua (common wild oat), Avena maroccana (Moroccan oat), Avena occidentalis ({{vern|western oat), Avena pubescens (downy oat-grass), Avena pratensis (meadow oat-grass), Avena spicata (poverty oat-grass), Avena sterilis (winter wild oat) - wild species

Italian

Noun

avena f ‎(plural avene)

1. oats

Latin

Etymology

Probably a non-Indo-European substrate word. Cognate with Lithuanian aviža, Latvian auzas, and Proto-Slavic *ovьsъ.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈweː.na/

Noun

avēna f ‎(genitive avēnae); first declension

1. oats
2. wild oats
3. straw
4. A shepherd's pipe

Declension

First declension.

Descendants

References

• avena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• avena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• AVENA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “avena”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin avēna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈβe.na/

Noun

avena f ‎(plural avenas)

1. oat
2. oats
3. oatmeal porridge

Derived terms

• avena loca f