avus

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

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avus m (genitive avī); second declension

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.)
ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forebear
Synonyms: patriarcha, prōgenitor
old man
Synonyms: seneciō, senex, veglō

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“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

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