"Avernus" meaning in Latin

See Avernus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Ancient Greek ἄορνος (áornos), ἄϝορνος (áwornos, “birdless”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”). The lack of birds was likely due to fatal gases like carbon dioxide seeping from the volcanically active lake. Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|ἄορνος}} Ancient Greek ἄορνος (áornos) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Avernus<2.loc>}} Avernus m sg (genitive Avernī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Avernus<2.loc>}} Forms: Avernī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Avernus [nominative, singular], Avernī [genitive, singular], Avernō [dative, singular], Avernum [accusative, singular], Avernō [ablative, singular], Averne [singular, vocative], Avernī [locative, singular]
  1. Avernus (lake in Southern Italy) Tags: declension-2, masculine, singular Categories (place): Italy Derived forms: Avernālis
    Sense id: en-Avernus-la-name-uoEdSOYU Disambiguation of Italy: 95 5 Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 54 46
  2. The underworld Tags: declension-2, masculine, singular Categories (place): Lakes
    Sense id: en-Avernus-la-name-qQOEAvSH Disambiguation of Lakes: 43 57 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 54 46

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "avern"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: avern",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: avern"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Avernus"
          },
          "expansion": "English: Avernus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: Avernus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: averno"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "Averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: Averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: Averno"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: averno"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: averno"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἄορνος"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἄορνος (áornos)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek ἄορνος (áornos), ἄϝορνος (áwornos, “birdless”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”). The lack of birds was likely due to fatal gases like carbon dioxide seeping from the volcanically active lake.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Avernī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Averne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Avernus<2.loc>"
      },
      "expansion": "Avernus m sg (genitive Avernī); second declension",
      "name": "la-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Avernus<2.loc>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Italy",
          "orig": "la:Italy",
          "parents": [
            "Europe",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "Avernālis"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Avernus (lake in Southern Italy)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Avernus-la-name-uoEdSOYU",
      "links": [
        [
          "Avernus",
          "Avernus#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Lakes",
          "orig": "la:Lakes",
          "parents": [
            "Bodies of water",
            "Places",
            "Landforms",
            "Water",
            "Names",
            "Earth",
            "Liquids",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Nature",
            "Matter",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Chemistry",
            "Lemmas",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The underworld"
      ],
      "id": "en-Avernus-la-name-qQOEAvSH",
      "links": [
        [
          "underworld",
          "underworld"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "la:Avernus"
  ],
  "word": "Avernus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin proper nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "la:Italy",
    "la:Lakes"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Avernālis"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "avern"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: avern",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: avern"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Avernus"
          },
          "expansion": "English: Avernus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: Avernus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: averno"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "Averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: Averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: Averno"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: averno"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "averno"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: averno",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: averno"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἄορνος"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἄορνος (áornos)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek ἄορνος (áornos), ἄϝορνος (áwornos, “birdless”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”). The lack of birds was likely due to fatal gases like carbon dioxide seeping from the volcanically active lake.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Avernī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Averne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Avernī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Avernus<2.loc>"
      },
      "expansion": "Avernus m sg (genitive Avernī); second declension",
      "name": "la-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Avernus<2.loc>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Avernus (lake in Southern Italy)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Avernus",
          "Avernus#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The underworld"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "underworld",
          "underworld"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "la:Avernus"
  ],
  "word": "Avernus"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Avernus meaning in Latin (3.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.