avus Latin · revision 18010

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂éwh₂os}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈa.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaː.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''avus''' ''m'' (genitive avī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have ''avs'' and the older nominative ''avos''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*awo-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₂éwh₂os|t=grandfather, maternal uncle]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Cognate with [[hit|ḫuḫḫa-|t=grandfather]], [[hy|հաւ|tr=haw|t=grandfather]], [[got|𐌰𐍅𐍉|tr=awō|t=grandmother]] and [[sga|aue|t=grandson]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''ibi meī maiōrēs sunt sitī, pater, avos, proavos, abavos'', “there my forefathers lie buried, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Avus'' is “a grandfather” (Cicero of Gaius Gracchus: ''clārissimō patre, avō, maiōribus'', “of a most famous father, grandfather and ancestors”), and in poetry “an ancestor, forefather” (Virgil: ''Mantua, dīves avīs'', “Mantua, rich in ancestors”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary also records “an old man”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “grandfather”.^(Stelten 1995) Köbler records it widely in early medieval law codes.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''pater, avos, proavos, abavos''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''clārissimō patre, avō, maiōribus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil: ''Mantua, dīves avīs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|grandfather]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # An [[m|en|ancestor]], forefather.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An old man.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abavus]]

+ * [[atavus]]

+ * [[avītus]]

+ * [[avunculus]]

+ * [[proavus]]

+ * [[tritavus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[avia]]

+ * [[ava]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}