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4/23/2024, 9:35 PM Mike C avicenna added (from user-submitted name 220405)
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Gender Masculine
Usage History
Pronounced Pron. /æv.ɪ.ˈsɛn.ə/(English)

Meaning & History

Latinized form of the Arabic patronymic اِبن سينا (ibn Sina), referring to the famed Arabic-speaking Persian philosopher and physician Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sina (980-1037). His patronymic commemorates an ancestor named Sina.