English → Latin
“peacock” in Latin
pāvōpeacock, peafowl; a bird associated with Argus and sacred to Hera or Juno; eaten as a delicacy.masculusmale, masculine; manly, virile; Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural productsfēminawoman; wife; femalepāvapeahen; also eaten as a delicacy.pāvōnīnusof or pertaining to a peacock; colored like the tail of a peacockpāvōnācĕusbelonging to a peacock
The English word peacock itself goes back to Latin pāvō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
peacock
pavo (masculus); ☞ not pavus, which is unclassical; so also, peahen, pavo (femina), not pava: a peacock’s tail, cauda pavonis: the eye of a peacock’s tail, oculus caudae pavonis: a peacock’s feather, penna pavonina: of or belonging to a peacock, pavoninus: like a peacock, pavonaceus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for peacock?
- The usual Latin words for “peacock” are pāvō, masculus, fēmina; also pāva, pāvōnīnus, pāvōnācĕus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.