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Webster 1913 Edition


Pavone

Pa-vone′

,
Noun.
[Cf. It.
pavone
, Sp.
pavon
, fr. L.
pavo
.]
(Zool.)
A peacock.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pavone

PAVO'NE

,
Noun.
[L. pavo.] A peacock. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


Pavone

Pavone

See also: pavone

Italian

Proper noun

Pavone ?

  1. A surname.
  2. Rita Pavone, Italian actress and singer

pavone

pavone

See also: Pavone

English

Noun

pavone (plural pavones)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A peacock.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
      wings it had with sundry colours dight, / More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan [...].

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pavo, pavonem.

Noun

pavone m (plural pavoni) (feminine: pavona or pavonessa)

  1. peacock, peafowl

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Latin

Noun

pāvōne

  1. ablative singular of pāvō