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
- T
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quin parasitando paverint ventres suos: pater, avos, proavos, abavos, atavos, tritavos quasi mures semper edere alienum cibum, neque..." - T
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...sunt maiores siti, pater, avos, proavos, abavos. non possunt mihi minaciis tuis hisce oculi exfodiri. sed paucis verbis..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Valerius Messala, cuius proavum, oratorem Corvinum, divo Augusto, abavo Neronis, collegam in eo[dem] magistratu fuisse pauci..."