avus

See also: ávus and Avus

Estonian

Noun

avus

1. inessive plural of ava

Latin

Alternative forms

• avos (pre-Classical)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather, uncle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.u̯us/, [ˈäu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vus/, [ˈäːvus]

Noun

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avus m (genitive avī); second declension

1. grandfather
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.258:

     [...] māternō veniēns ab avō Cyllēnia prōlēs.

     [... Mercury, that] child of [Mount] Cyllene, approaching from [the mountain of] his maternal grandfather, [Atlas].
     (Mount Atlas is personified as the Titan Atlas, father of Maia, the mother of Mercury, who was born on Mount Cyllene.)

2. ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forebear

   Synonyms: patriarcha, prōgenitor

3. old man

   Synonyms: seneciō, senex, veglō

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	avus	avī
Genitive	avī	avōrum
Dative	avō	avīs
Accusative	avum	avōs
Ablative	avō	avīs
Vocative	ave	avī

Derived terms

• abavus
• atavus
• avītus
• avunculus
• proavus
• tritavus

 

Related terms

• avia, ava

Descendants

• ⇒ Aromanian: aush
• Catalan: avi
• Spanish: abuelo
• French: aïeul
• Lombard: av, ev
• Italian: avo
• ⇒ Romanian: auș
• Sardinian: abu, àviu, avu
• Sicilian: avu

References

• “avus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• avus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• avus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “avus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly