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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la via}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈaː.wi.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''āvius''' (feminine āvia, neuter āvium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|via|-us|t1=away from|t2=way, road]], “away from the road”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short contrast it with [[devius|alt=dēvius]], leading away from the right way, and [[invius]], having no way at all,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and a fragment of Suetonius defines it as winding.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Plautus on, though not in Cicero.^(TLL) In the ''Aulularia'' a grove of Silvanus outside the wall is lonely and unfrequented.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of places without roads, trackless and unvisited, and with a dative inaccessible, as Livy's places beyond the reach of supplies.^(OLD 2012) It also means out of the way, remote, and predicatively far off, as Virgil's warrior hiding himself far off in the mountains.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) A third sense is going astray: Lucretius uses it of Phaethon carried off course, and of a person who strays far from true reasoning.^(OLD 2012) It is mostly a word of the poets and historians.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of an unfrequented grove.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of going astray.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a warrior hiding far off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of places out of reach of supplies.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Without roads, [[m|en|trackless]], unfrequented; with a dative, inaccessible.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Out of the way, [[m|en|remote]]; at a distance, far off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Going [[m|en|astray]], off course; departing from the right way of thinking.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[āvium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[devius|alt=dēvius]]

+ * [[invius]]

+ * [[via]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A noun ''avius'', “grandfather”, made as a masculine to [[avia]] “grandmother”, appears in some inscriptions of the Empire and again in texts from 780 on.^(Wiktionary) The TLL refers it to [[avus]].^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}