Latin edit

Etymology edit

From ab + avus (grandfather).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

abavus m (genitive abavī); second declension

  1. a great-great-grandfather
    • Festus & M. Verrius Flaccus, 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 edit

Second-declension noun.

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

Related terms edit

References edit

  • 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.