English

Noun

1. advice; opinion; deliberation.

Danish

Etymology

Noun

1. newspaper

French

Pronunciation

• lang=fr|/a.vi/
• SAMPA: /a.vi/

Noun

1. advice

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• a Classical /ˈa.wis/|lang=la

Noun

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. omen, portent

Inflection

Synonyms

• ales

Related terms

• aucella / avicella
• auceps
• aviārium
• aviārius
• avicula
• aviculārius
• avipēs

Descendants

• Aragonese: au
• Catalan: au
• Portuguese: ave
• Spanish: ave

See also

• passer

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈa.wiːs/|lang=la

Noun

References

Lithuanian

Etymology

Acronyms

• Andover Village Improvement Society, the oldest conservation society in the eastern United States

Business

• Auster Avis, a four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
• Avis Budget Group, founded in 2006 as the successor company to Cendant Corporation
  • Avis Rent a Car System, a car and truck rental firm
    • Aju Avis, an automobile rental headquartered in Guro-dong Guro-gu Seoul Korea and established in 1988
• Haugesunds Avis, a daily newspaper published in Haugesund, Norway

Entertainment

• Avis, a Harry Potter spell
• Avis Durgan, the ASCII-string encoded in the text of the vintage Sierra Entertainment AGI adventure games
• Avis de Recherche, Canadian French language category 2 digital cable specialty channel
• Rarae Avis, an indie rock group

People

Given name (in order of Surname)

• Avis Bunnage (1923-1990), British actress of film, stage and television
• Avis M. Dry (1922–2007), clinical psychologist and an author on the psychology of Carl Jung
• Avis Favaro (born 1958), Canadian medical correspondent for CTV News since 1992
• Avis Gray (born 1954), politician in Manitoba, Canada
• Avis Kimble (born 1944), American model
• Avis Miller (born 1945), American model

Family name

• House of Aviz, the Portuguese royal dynasty
• David Avis, Canadian and British computer scientist
• Samuel B. Avis (1872-1924), American politician
• Warren Avis (1915-2007), the founder of Avis Rent A Car

Places

• Avis, Pennsylvania, a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States
• Avis (Portugal), a municipality in the south of Portugal

Science and technology

• Avis, Latin singular for bird, see class of birds, Aves
• Avis, plural of the video file format AVI
• calcar avis (hippocampus minor), an involution of the ventricular wall produced by the calcarine fissure

See also

• Aves (disambiguation)