The corpus record — Latin

abavus

abavus · m

Great-greatgrandfather

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Where it lives

De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 2 · 2.66/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Annales 4 · 0.45/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ăb-ăvus — Lewis & Short

ăb-ăvus, i, m.

1 (=avi avus, cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 13 Mūll.) Great-greatgrandfather, Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 20; Cic. Brut. 58, 213; id. Har. Resp. 11, 22; 11, 38 (B. and K.); Dig. 38, 10, 1, § G; 10, § 15; called by Vergil quartus pater, A. 10, 619.—

2 In gen., forefather, ancestor, Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 37; Sen. Clem. 1,10.

In the wild

abavum Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 33
abavus Tacitus, Annales 14.p56
abavi Cicero, De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 38
abavus Tacitus, Annales 14.p54
abavos Plautus, Persa 1.2
abavo Tacitus, Annales 13.p34

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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