Avis is Latin for bird and may refer to: Aviation 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 Businesses Avis Budget Group Avis Car Rental Places Avis, Portugal, a municipality in the south of Portugal Avis, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community Avis, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough Other uses Avis (name), a given name and a surname Andover Village Improvement Society, a land preservation society Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue, or AVIS, an Italian blood donation organisation Avis Dam, a dam near Windhoek, Namibia USS Avis (Sp-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 Menton J. Matthews III or Avis, musician Avis, an open-source implementation of the Elvin network event routing specification Avis, a fictional deity on The Orville -avis, a commonly used taxonomic suffix See also Aves (disambiguation) Avi (disambiguation) Aviz (disambiguation) House of Aviz or House of Avis, a dynasty of the kings of Portugal List of newspapers named Avis Order of Aviz or , a Portuguese military order Order of Aviz (Brazil) or Imperial Order of St. Benedict of Avis, a former Imperial Brazilian military order