Avicenna
English
Alternative forms
- Ebn-e Sina, Ibn Sina, Ibn Sīnā, Pur-e Sina, Pursina, Auicen
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌævɪˈsɛnə/
- Rhymes: -ɛnə
Proper noun
Avicenna
- Persian polymath (c. 980–1037).
- 1528, Thomas Paynell translating Joannes de Mediolano's Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, p. 33:
- Auicen saythe; There be certeyne medicins... which wyl not suffre poyson to approche nere the harte, as triacle and Metridate.
- 1528, Thomas Paynell translating Joannes de Mediolano's Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, p. 33:
Derived terms
- Avicennia
- Avicennian
- Avicennism
- avicennite
Translations
Persian polymath
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Anagrams
- avenacin
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃɛn.na/
- Rhymes: -ɛnna
- Hyphenation: A‧vi‧cèn‧na
Proper noun
Avicenna m
- Avicenna (Persian polymath (c. 980–1037))
- 13th century, “Ⅱ. Dell'aria, e conoscimento della bontà, e malizia sua [2. About the Air, and the Discernment of Its Goodness and Badness]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 4:
- L'Aere, secondo Avicenna, è uno degli elementi delle cose generate
- Air is, according to Avicenna, one of the elements of the created things
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto IV”, in Inferno, lines 140–144:
- […] e vidi Orfeo,
Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale;
Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo,
Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno,
Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.- and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.
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Derived terms
- avicennia
- avicenniano
- avicennismo
- avicennista
Further reading
- Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
Etymology
From Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.u̯iˈken.na/, [äu̯ɪˈkɛnːä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃen.na/, [äviˈt͡ʃɛnːä]
Proper noun
Avicenna m sg (genitive Avicennae); first declension
- Avicenna
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Avicenna |
Genitive | Avicennae |
Dative | Avicennae |
Accusative | Avicennam |
Ablative | Avicennā |
Vocative | Avicenna |
Descendants
- → English: Avicenna
- → French: Avicenne
- → Polish: Awicenna
- → Russian: Авиценна (Avicenna)