avunculus
Latin
Etymology
By surface analysis, avus + -unculus. Actually from an n-stem noun suffixed with -culus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂-on-, whence also Proto-Celtic *awontīr (“uncle”)[1][2] and possibly Proto-Germanic *awô (“grandfather”), from *h₂éwh₂os (“older male relative”), whence also avus (“grandfather”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈu̯un.ku.lus/, [äˈu̯ʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈvun.ku.lus/, [äˈvuŋkulus]
Noun
avunculus m (genitive avunculī); second declension
- maternal uncle, mother's brother
- mother's sister's husband
- great-uncle
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | avunculus | avunculī |
| Genitive | avunculī | avunculōrum |
| Dative | avunculō | avunculīs |
| Accusative | avunculum | avunculōs |
| Ablative | avunculō | avunculīs |
| Vocative | avuncule | avunculī |
Descendants
References
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 941: “oncle” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- “avoncle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “avunculus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1252
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 48
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “avus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 66
Further reading
- “avunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “avunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- avunculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- avunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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