abavus

From ab + avus (“grandfather”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba.u̯us/, [ˈäbäu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba.vus/, [ˈäːbävus]

abavus m (genitive abavī); second declension

1. a great-great-grandfather
   • c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione :

     Abavus dicitur, quia abest ab avo, & est avus avi

     Great-great-grandfather he's called, for he's distant from the grandfather & is the grandfather of the grandfather.

Second-declension noun.

• atavus
• avus
• proavus
• absocer

• “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.