abavus

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Latin

Etymology

From ab + avus (“grandfather”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba.u̯us/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba.vus/,

Noun

abavus m (genitive abavī); second declension

a great-great-grandfather
- c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione :
  Abavus dicitur, quia abest ab avo, & est avus avi
  Great-great-grandfather he's called, for he's distant from the grandfather & is the grandfather of the grandfather.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abavus	abavī
Genitive	abavī	abavōrum
Dative	abavō	abavīs
Accusative	abavum	abavōs
Ablative	abavō	abavīs
Vocative	abave	abavī

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References

“abavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“abavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
abavus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 1.

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