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1. pāvo, ōnis (ante-class. and late collat. form pāvus, i, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 75 P., or Ann. v. 15 Vahl.; Arn. 7, 215; Tert. Pall. 5; id. Anim. 33; Aus. Epigr. 69; id. Ep. 20, 10; Vulg. 3 Reg. 10, 22; whence fem. pava, q. v.), m. [cf. ταώς], a peacock, sacred to Juno, Varr. L. L. 5, § 75 Müll.; id. R. R. 3, 6; Col. 8, 11; Plin. 10, 20, 22, § 43; Pall. 1, 28: cauda pavoni donata, Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 18; cf. Lucr. 2, 806.
As a delicacy, Juv. 1, 143; Cic. Fam. 9, 18, 20.
The male, for the sake of distinction, is called masculus pavo, Col. 8, 11, 10; and the female, femina pavo, Gell. 7, 16, 5.
From the tails of peacocks fly-flaps were made; cf. Mart. 14, 67, and v. pavoninus.

2. Pāvo, ōnis, m., a Roman surname: Fircellius Pavo, Varr. R. R. 3, 2.

* pāvōnācĕus, a, um, adj. [1. pavo], of or belonging to a peacock; transf., like a peacock’s tail, variegated, Plin. 36, 22, 44, § 159.

pāvōnīnus, a, um, adj. [1. pavo], of or belonging to a peacock.

  1. I. Lit.: ova pavonina, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 10: pulli, Col. 8, 11, 13: muscaria, fly-flaps made of peacocks’ tails, Mart. 14, 67 in lemm.
  2. II. Transf., colored like a peacock’s tail, pavonine: lectus pavoninus, a couch of citron-wood, Mart. 14, 85 in lemm.: ornatus, Tert. adv. Val. 13.

păvor (old nom. pavos, Naev. ap. Non. 487, 8; Fragm. Trag. 45 Rib.; Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155; Fragm. Trag. v. 82 Rib.; B. and K. read pavor), ōris, m. [paveo],

  1. I. a trembling, quaking, throbbing, panting with fear, desire, joy, etc., anxiety, fear, dread, alarm, etc. (perh. not used by Cic.; syn.: metus, timor, tremor): pavorem, metum mentem loco moventem; ex quo illud Enni: tum pavor sapientiam omnem mi exanimato expectorat, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19 (this verse of Ennius is also cited in Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 154; cf. also Enn. p. 96 Vahl., and Trag. Rel. p. 17 Rib.): hic exsultat enim pavor ac metus, Lucr. 3, 141; Hirt. B. G. 8, 13, 3: tantus terror pavorque omnes occupavit, ut, etc., Liv. 24, 20: pavor ceperat milites ne, etc., id. 24, 42: pavorem inicere, id. 28, 3: incutere, id. 27, 42; Verg. G. 1, 331: pavorem deponere, Ov. M. 10, 117: pellere, Luc. 7, 732: lenire, Sil. 8, 77.
    Of expectant or joyful trembling: cum spes arrectae juvenum, exsultantiaque haurit Corda pavor pulsans, Verg. G. 3, 106; id. A. 5, 138: laeto pavore proditus, Sil. 16, 432.
    Of religious fear, awe, Sil. 3, 691: pavor aquae, dread of water, hydrophobia, Plin. 25, 2, 6, § 17; 29, 5, 32, § 98 (in Cels. 5, 27, 2, aquae timor; Gr. ὑδροφοβία).
          1. (β) Plur.: venia est tantorum danda pavorum, Luc. 1, 521; Val. Fl. 7, 147: contra formidines pavoresque, Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 115: repentini, id. 32, 10, 48, § 137: nocturni, id. 28, 8, 27, § 98; Tac. H. 4, 38; 2, 76.
  2. II. Păvor, personified, the god of fear, Liv. 1, 27; Lact. 1, 20; Val. Fl. 1, 799; v. pallor fin.
    His priests     are called Pavorii, Serv. Verg. A. 8, 285.