atavus

== Latin == === Etymology === From at- + avus (“grandfather”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.ta.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.ta.vus] === Noun === atavus m (genitive atavī); second declension ancestor great-great-great-grandfather ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (alternative genitive plural in -um). ==== Coordinate terms ==== atavia === References === “atavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “atavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "atavus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “atavus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.