"avus" meaning in Latin

See avus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈa.u̯us/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈäu̯ʊs̠] [Classical-Latin], /ˈa.vus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈäːvus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather, uncle”). Etymology templates: {{inh|la|ine-pro|*h₂éwh₂os|t=grandfather, uncle}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather, uncle”) Head templates: {{la-noun|avus<2>}} avus m (genitive avī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|avus<2>}} Forms: avī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], avus [nominative, singular], avī [nominative, plural], avī [genitive, singular], avōrum [genitive, plural], avō [dative, singular], avīs [dative, plural], avum [accusative, singular], avōs [accusative, plural], avō [ablative, singular], avīs [ablative, plural], ave [singular, vocative], avī [plural, vocative]
  1. grandfather Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (topical): Family, Male family members
    Sense id: en-avus-la-noun-ercEmXNZ Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 26 37 38
  2. ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forebear Tags: declension-2, masculine Synonyms: patriarcha, prōgenitor
    Sense id: en-avus-la-noun-eykcDUuF Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 26 37 38
  3. old man Tags: declension-2, masculine Synonyms: seneciō, senex, veglō
    Sense id: en-avus-la-noun-DKUym1yx Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 2 14 84 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 26 37 38
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: avos [pre-Classical] Derived forms: abavus, atavus, avītus, avunculus, proavus, tritavus Related terms: avia, ava

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "abavus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "atavus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "avītus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "avunculus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "proavus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tritavus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "aush",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Aromanian: aush",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Aromanian: aush"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "avi"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: avi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: avi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "abuelo"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: abuelo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: abuelo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "aïeul"
          },
          "expansion": "French: aïeul",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: aïeul"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lmo",
            "2": "av",
            "3": "ev"
          },
          "expansion": "Lombard: av, ev",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Lombard: av, ev"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "avo"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: avo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: avo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "auș",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Romanian: auș",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Romanian: auș"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "abu",
            "3": "àviu",
            "4": "avu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: abu, àviu, avu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: abu, àviu, avu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "avu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: avu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: avu"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂éwh₂os",
        "t": "grandfather, uncle"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather, uncle”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather, uncle”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "avī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ave",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "avus<2>"
      },
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "avus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "avia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ava"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Family",
          "orig": "la:Family",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Male family members",
          "orig": "la:Male family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Male people",
            "Family",
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 37 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "[... Mercury, that] child of [Mount] Cyllene, approaching from [the mountain of] his maternal grandfather, [Atlas].\n(Mount Atlas is personified as the Titan Atlas, father of Maia, the mother of Mercury, who was born on Mount Cyllene.)",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.258",
          "text": "… māternō veniēns ab avō Cyllēnia prōlēs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "grandfather"
      ],
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        [
          "grandfather",
          "grandfather"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 37 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forebear"
      ],
      "id": "en-avus-la-noun-eykcDUuF",
      "links": [
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "progenitor",
          "progenitor"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "patriarcha"
        },
        {
          "word": "prōgenitor"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 14 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 37 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "old man"
      ],
      "id": "en-avus-la-noun-DKUym1yx",
      "links": [
        [
          "old man",
          "old man"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "seneciō"
        },
        {
          "word": "senex"
        },
        {
          "word": "veglō"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.u̯us/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäu̯ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.vus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäːvus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "pre-Classical"
      ],
      "word": "avos"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "la:avus"
  ],
  "word": "avus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "abavus"
    },
    {
      "word": "atavus"
    },
    {
      "word": "avītus"
    },
    {
      "word": "avunculus"
    },
    {
      "word": "proavus"
    },
    {
      "word": "tritavus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "aush",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Aromanian: aush",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Aromanian: aush"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
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          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: avi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: avi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "abuelo"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: abuelo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: abuelo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "aïeul"
          },
          "expansion": "French: aïeul",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: aïeul"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lmo",
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          },
          "expansion": "Lombard: av, ev",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Lombard: av, ev"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "avo"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: avo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: avo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
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            "der": "1"
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          "name": "desc"
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          "expansion": "Sardinian: abu, àviu, avu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: abu, àviu, avu"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "scn",
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          },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather, uncle”).",
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    {
      "form": "avī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "la-ndecl",
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      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avus",
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "avōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avō",
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ave",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avī",
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "avus<2>"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "avus<2>"
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "avia"
    },
    {
      "word": "ava"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "la:Family",
        "la:Male family members"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[... Mercury, that] child of [Mount] Cyllene, approaching from [the mountain of] his maternal grandfather, [Atlas].\n(Mount Atlas is personified as the Titan Atlas, father of Maia, the mother of Mercury, who was born on Mount Cyllene.)",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.258",
          "text": "… māternō veniēns ab avō Cyllēnia prōlēs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "grandfather"
      ],
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        [
          "grandfather",
          "grandfather"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forebear"
      ],
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        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "progenitor",
          "progenitor"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "patriarcha"
        },
        {
          "word": "prōgenitor"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "old man"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "old man",
          "old man"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "seneciō"
        },
        {
          "word": "senex"
        },
        {
          "word": "veglō"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.u̯us/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäu̯ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.vus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäːvus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "pre-Classical"
      ],
      "word": "avos"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "la:avus"
  ],
  "word": "avus"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.