Paventia

== Latin == === Etymology === From pavēns (“trembling with fear”) +‎ -ia (“relative noun suffix”), from paveō (“be afraid, fear”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [paˈwɛn.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [paˈvɛn.t͡si.a] === Proper noun === Paventia f sg (genitive Paventiae); first declension (Roman mythology) the goddess who guarded children against sudden terrors ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Paventia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press