abavos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →abavus, abavi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ancestor, forefather; great-great grandfather, grandfather's grandfather;
acc. pl.nom. sg.
Examples
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quin parasitando paverint ventres suos: pater, avos, proavos, abavos, atavos, tritavos quasi mures semper edere alienum cibum, neque..."Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...sunt maiores siti, pater, avos, proavos, abavos. non possunt mihi minaciis tuis hisce oculi exfodiri. sed paucis verbis..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Valerius Messala, cuius proavum, oratorem Corvinum, divo Augusto, abavo Neronis, collegam in eo[dem] magistratu fuisse pauci..."