avus

avus

1. inessive plural of ava

• avos (pre-classical)

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.vus]

avus m (genitive avī); second declension

1. grandfather
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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

Second-declension noun (alternative genitive plural in -um).

• avia, ava

• “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, 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