proavus
Latin
noun
Definitions
- great-grandfather
- forefather, ancestor
Etymology
Affix from Latin avus (grandfather, ancestor, old man).
Origin
Latin
avus
Gloss
grandfather, ancestor, old man
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
祖
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- avital English
- *aviolus Latin
- *avoilu- Latin
- avitus Latin
- avunculus Latin
- avus Latin
- tritavus Latin
- avo Italian
- aïeul French
- *h₂ewh₂yos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éwh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- aiol Old French
- avo Esperanto
- avi Catalan, Valencian
- auș Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Nimravidae Translingual
- aush Aromanian
- von Friulian