avena

From Latin avēna.

• IPA^(key): /aˈve.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: a‧vé‧na

avena f (plural avene)

1. oats

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈweː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈvɛː.na]

avēna f (genitive avēnae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• avēnāceus
• avēnārius

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• avena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbena/ [aˈβ̞e.na]

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: a‧ve‧na

Inherited from Latin avēna.

avena f (plural avenas)

1. oat
2. oats
3. oatmeal porridge

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

avena

1. inflection of avenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “avena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024