abavus Latin · revision 33557

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abavus''' ''m'' (genitive abavī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|avus|t2=grandfather]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|avus]] to [[itc-pro|*awo-]] and [[ine-pro|*h2euh2-|t=grandfather on the mother's side]], with cognates in [[hit|huhha-|t=grandfather]], [[sga|aue|t=grandson]] and [[lt|avýnas|t=maternal uncle]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on, in the ''Miles Gloriosus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a great-great-grandfather, the grandfather's grandfather, as Festus explains it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it in the ''Brutus'' and of the ancestor of Clodius, Appius Claudius Caecus;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Virgil calls the same degree ''quartus pater''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) More loosely it is a remote ancestor or forefather: Seneca uses it of Caesar as a remote ancestor,^(OLD 2012) and Pliny the Elder speaks of defending our forefathers.^(OLD 2012) The jurists use it in the degrees of kinship.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Medieval Latin it can also mean a great-grandfather,^(Niermeyer 1976)^(MLW) as in Thietmar of Merseburg.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, in the ''Miles Gloriosus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a great-great-grandfather.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of a remote ancestor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1012–1018 – Thietmar of Merseburg, of a great-grandfather.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

+ # A remote [[m|en|ancestor]], forefather.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|great-grandfather]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(MLW)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[avus]]

+ * [[proavus]]

+ * [[atavus]]

+ * [[abavia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}