Avicenna

English

Avicenna in a miniature

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

1. Persian polymath (c. 980–1037).
   • 1528, Joannes de Mediolano, translated by Thomas Paynell, Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, page 33:

     Auicen saythe; There be certeyne medicins... which wyl not suffre poyson to approche nere the harte, as triacle and Metridate.

Derived terms

• Avicennia
• Avicennian
• Avicennism
• avicennite

 

Translations

Persian polymath

• Arabic: اِبْن سِينَا m (ibn sīnā)
• Armenian: Ավիցեննա (Avicʻenna)
• Catalan: Avicenna m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊本·西那 (Yīběn-Xinà), 阿維森納／阿维森纳 (zh) (Āwéisēnnà)

• French: Avicenne (fr) m
• German: Avicenna m
• Italian: Avicenna m
• Japanese: イブン・スィーナー (Ibun-Sīnā), アウィケンナ (Avikenna)
• Persian: ابن سینا (ebn-e sinâ), پور سینا (pur-e sinâ)
• Polish: Awicenna m
• Russian: Ибн Си́на m (Ibn Sína), Авице́нна m (Avicénna)
• Spanish: Avicena m
• Turkish: İbn-i Sina
• Uyghur: ئىبىن سىنا (ibin sina)

Anagrams

• avenacin

Italian

miniatura di Avicenna

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

1. Avicenna (Persian polymath (c. 980–1037))
   • 13^th 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]‎^[1], 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

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[2], lines 140–144; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[3], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] 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.

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 Latin) IPA^(key): /a.u̯iˈken.na/, [äu̯ɪˈkɛnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃen.na/, [äviˈt͡ʃɛnːä]

Proper noun

Avicenna m sg (genitive Avicennae); first declension

1. Avicenna

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Avicenna
Genitive	Avicennae
Dative	Avicennae
Accusative	Avicennam
Ablative	Avicennā
Vocative	Avicenna

Descendants

• → English: Avicenna
• → French: Avicenne
• → Polish: Awicenna
• → Russian: Авиценна (Avicenna)