abavus

== Latin == === Etymology === From ab- +‎ avus (“grandfather”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.ba.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.ba.vus] === Noun === abavus m (genitive abavī); second declension a great-great-grandfather ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (alternative genitive plural in -um). ==== Coordinate terms ==== abavia === 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.