avia Latin · revision 32091

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂euh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.wi.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.vi.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''avia''' ''f'' (genitive aviae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have popular forms such as ''abiae'' (dative), ''havia'' and ''aia''.^(TLL)

+ Late Latin also has ''ava''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|avus|t=grandfather]], with a feminine suffix.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Leumann regarded it as a fairly old feminine of [[m|la|avus]], but de Vaan notes that it may also be the feminine of a [[itc-pro|*awjo-|t=grandson, uncle]] such as Baltic, Slavic and Irish have.^(de Vaan 2008) He traces [[m|la|avus]] to [[m|itc-pro|*awo-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂euh₂-|t=grandfather on the mother's side]], perhaps also grandmother.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[hit|huhha-|t=grandfather]], [[sga|aue|t=grandson]], [[lt|avýnas|t=maternal uncle]] and [[non|ǽ|t=great-grandfather]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Truculentus'' has a baby with “two mothers and two grandmothers”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a grandmother, on the father's or the mother's side; the jurists of the ''Digest'' specify both.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Persius uses the plural for old wives' tales or rooted prejudices: “I pluck the old grandmothers out of your lungs”.^(OLD 2012) The Vulgate uses it in the Second Epistle to Timothy, and the late form ''ava'' appears in Venantius Fortunatus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin keeps the sense grandmother, and the form ''ava'' survives in northern Italian dialects.^(Stelten 1995)^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a child's two grandmothers.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius of old wives' tales.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it in the Second Epistle to Timothy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 533 AD – The ''Digest'' of grandmothers on both sides.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

+ # ''(figurative)'' A rooted prejudice, an old wives' tale.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[avus]]

+ * [[avunculus]]

+ * [[avitus|alt=avītus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate ''avia'' is an unidentified plant in Columella, perhaps [[m|en|groundsel]], of unknown origin.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) The neuter plural ''[[avius|alt=āvia]]'', from the adjective ''āvius'' “pathless”, means pathless or wild regions.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}