avis

From Middle English avys, from Old French avis.

avis

1. (obsolete) advice; opinion; deliberation.

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈa.βis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈa.vis]

avis

1. plural of avi

Borrowed from French avis.

• IPA^(key): /aˈviːˀs/, [æˈʋiˀs̺]

avis c (singular definite avisen, plural indefinite aviser)

1. (journalism) newspaper

• “avis” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /a.vi/

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avis m (plural avis)

1. opinion

   Synonym: opinion

2. piece of advice

   Synonym: conseil

3. notice

• → Norwegian Bokmål: advis
• → Norwegian Bokmål: avis
  • → Kven: aviisi

• “avis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• 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), and Albanian vito (“woodpidgeon”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.u̯is/, [ˈäu̯ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vis/, [ˈäːvis]

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

• passer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.u̯iːs/, [ˈäu̯iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vis/, [ˈäːvis]

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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/vocative/accusative plural of avs

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *áwis, 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

• avîs

From Proto-Iranian *āpuθra- (“pregnant”), from *puθráh (“son”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *putrás (“boy; son”), from Proto-Indo-European *putlós. Cognate with Persian آبستن (âbestan).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈvɪs/

avis (not comparable, Arabic spelling ئاڤس)

1. pregnant (of animals only; taboo for humans)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “avis”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 19

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈaviːs/

avis

1. locative singular of avvi

• IPA^(key): /aˈʋiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs
• Hyphenation: av‧is

From French avis (“opinion, notice; piece of advise”), from Middle French advis (“opinion”), from Old French avis (“opinion”), from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin vīsum (“vision, image”). Doublet of advis.

Cognate with Danish avis, Italian avviso, Middle English avys and English avis.

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

1. (journalism) a newspaper (a publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles)

   Synonyms: avisblad, blad, tidende, tidning

   ikke et ord i avisen ― keep something secret

   • 1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 242:

     du mener nok ikke, vi holder aviser

     you probably do not mean, we keep newspapers

   • 1877, Henrik Ibsen, Samfundets støtter, page 60:

     der vil blive skrevet korrespondencer i aviserne i nabobyerne

     correspondence will be written in the newspapers of the neighboring towns

   • 1890, Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, page 124:

     generalen sad … og læste aviserne

     the general sat… and read the newspapers

   • 1994, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsuns brev I, page 202:

     hun har nemlig havt en historie og har staaet i aviserne nylig

     she has had a story and has been in the newspapers recently

   • 1993, Knut Faldbakken, Ormens år, page 19:

     jeg abonnerer på åtte aviserjeg abonnerer på åtte aviser

     I subscribe to eight newspapers

   • 1995, Ebba Haslund, I mangel av sverd, page 181:

     bunker med illegale aviser

     piles of illegal newspapers

   • 2001, Lars Saabye Christensen, Halvbroren, page 216:

     hun hadde gått for å hente avisen

     she had gone to get the newspaper

   • 1934 October 9, Folkeviljen, page 3:

     et gammelt munnheld sier «ikke et ord i avisen» om noe som skal være topphemmelig

     an old saying goes "not a word in the newspaper" about something that should be top secret

   • 1935 September 17, Folkebladet, page 4:

     foreløbig må avisene ikke vite noe om dette. Altså ikke et ord i avisen om at vi følger et nytt spor

     for the time being, the newspapers must not know anything about this. In other words, not a word in the newspaper that we are following a new path

2. (media) a financial enterprise that consists of publishing a newspaper; newspaper agency

   hun er ansatt i en avis

   she is employed by a newspaper

3. (business) an office where the newspaper editorial office is located

   han gikk ned i avisen for å snakke med redaktøren

   he went down to the newspaper to talk to the editor

• → Kven: aviisi

avis

1. imperative of avise

• “avis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “avis” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “avis” in Store norske leksikon

• avsi, siva, svai, visa

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

1. opinion

• vis (more common)
• opinion

• Middle French: advis
  • French: avis
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: advis
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: avis
      • → Kven: aviisi
• → Italian: avviso
• → Middle English: avys, avis, avice, awise, advis, advice
  • English: avis, advice
  • Scots: adveece

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

avis (comparative mer avis, superlative mest avis)

1. (colloquial) jelly, jealous

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

avis

1. indefinite genitive singular of avi

• visa