mauvis
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo.vi/
Noun
mauvis m (plural mauvis)
- redwing (bird)
- Synonym: grive mauvis
Derived terms
- mauviette
Further reading
- “mauvis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- mavis
- malvis
- mauviz
Etymology
From older malvis, from Medieval Latin *malvitius, from Latin malum vitis.
Noun
mauvis m (oblique plural mauvis, nominative singular mauvis, nominative plural mauvis)
- thrush (bird)
Descendants
- → English: mavis, Mavis
- French: mauvis
- Italian: malvizzo
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (malvis, supplement)
- mauvis on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub