Noun: avus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Genitive
| Singular | avī |
| Plural | avōrum; avum |
Sample Sentences
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[...] māternō veniēns ab avō Cyllēnia prōlēs. ([... Mercury, that] child of [Mount] Cyllene, approaching from [the mountain of] his maternal grandfather, [Atlas].
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(Mount Atlas is personified as the Titan Atlas, father of Maia, the mother of Mercury, who was born on Mount Cyllene.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.258]
Nouns inflected like avus
digitus,
agnus,
nūmus,
tritavus,
servulus,
abavus,
atavus,
nummus,
proavus,
avus,
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather, uncle”).
Verbs referencing "avus"
Spanish Nouns
abuelo, Slovak Nouns
ujo, Italian Nouns
avo, Old English Nouns
eam, Galician Nouns
avó, Portuguese Nouns
avô, Russian Nouns
уй, French Nouns
aïeul, Romanian Nouns
auș, Asturian Nouns
güelu, English Nouns
nimravid, English Nouns
ayel, Middle English Nouns
ayel, Old Portuguese Nouns
avoo.
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