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avena.

reed, straw; shepherd's pipe, pan pipe; oats, wild oats, other allied grasses;

5 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[aˈweː.na]Classical-Latin[aˈvɛː.na]

  1. oats

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  2. wild oats

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  3. straw

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  4. A shepherd's pipe

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Where this word comes from

Probably a non-Indo-European substrate word. Cognate with Lithuanian aviža, Latvian auzas, and Proto-Slavic *ovьsъ.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.