mauvis
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo.vi/
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mauvis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
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)
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
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