mauvis

French

Noun

mauvis m (plural mauvis)

redwing (bird)

Synonyms

grive mauvis

Derived terms

mauviette

Old French

Alternative forms

mavis
malvis
mauviz

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)

Descendants

English: mavis (borrowed)
French: mauvis

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (malvis, supplement)

mauvis on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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