avunculus

== Latin == === Etymology === By surface analysis, avus +‎ -unculus. Actually from an n-stem noun suffixed with -culus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂-on-, a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Proto-Celtic *awontīr (“uncle”) and possibly Proto-Germanic *awô (“grandfather”), from *h₂éwh₂os (“older male relative”)), whence also avus (“grandfather”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈwʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈvuŋ.ku.lus] === Noun === avunculus m (genitive avunculī); second declension maternal uncle, mother's brother mother's sister's husband great-uncle ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== ==== See also ==== === References === ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] – map 941 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr “avoncle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “avunculus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1252 === Further reading === “avunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “avunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "avunculus", 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) “avunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.