Paventia

See also: paventia

Latin

Etymology

From pavēns (“trembling with fear”) +‎ -ia (“relative noun suffix”), from paveō (“be afraid, fear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈu̯en.ti.a/, [päˈu̯ɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈven.t͡si.a/, [päˈvɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Paventia f sg (genitive Paventiae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) the goddess who guarded children against sudden terrors

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Paventia
genitive	Paventiae
dative	Paventiae
accusative	Paventiam
ablative	Paventiā
vocative	Paventia

References

• “Paventia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press