Avis

Avis is Latin for bird. It may refer to:

Businesses

• Avis Budget Group, founded in 2006 as the successor company to Cendant Corporation
• Avis Car Rental, a car rental company
• Avis (newspaper), a list of newspapers

Places

• Avis, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
• Avis, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough
• Avis, Portugal, a municipality in the south of Portugal
• Avis Dam, near Windhoek, Namibia

Aircraft

• Auster Avis, a 1940s four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
• Avro Avis, a two-seat biplane
• Scottish Aeroplane Syndicate Avis, an early aircraft built by Howard Wright

Entertainment

• Avis, a Harry Potter spell that creates a flock of birds from the caster's wand
• Avis Everhard, fictional narrator of Jack London's "The Iron Heel"
• Menton J. Matthews III, a musician also known as Avis
• Avis is the deity worshipped by the fictional Krill people on the TV show The Orville

Acronyms

• Anderlik Varga Iskola Sport or AVIS, a 1930s Hungarian aviation company
• Andover Village Improvement Society, the second oldest land preservation society in the United States founded in 1894
• Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue, or AVIS, the major Italian blood donation organisation

People

• Avis (name), a given name and a surname
• House of Aviz (Avis in modern Portuguese), the second dynasty of the kings of Portugal

Other uses

• USS Avis (SP-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
• Order of Aviz (Ordem Militar de Avis), a Portuguese military order
• Order of Aviz (Brazil) (Imperial Order of St. Benedict of Avis), a former Imperial Brazilian military order
• The free software implementation of the Elvin network event routing specification
• List of commonly used taxonomic affixes (for the suffix "-avis")

See also

• Avi (disambiguation)
• Aviz (disambiguation)
• Aves (disambiguation)