avius

avius

1. conditional of avii

From ab- +‎ via +‎ -us.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.u̯i.us/, [ˈäːu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vi.us/, [ˈäːvius]

āvius (feminine āvia, neuter āvium); first/second-declension adjective

1. remote, out of the way
2. astray, distracting

First/second-declension adjective.

• āvium

• → Portuguese: ávio

Masculinized from avia (“grandmother”). Attested in a number of Imperial inscriptions, then elsewhere beginning in 780 CE.^[1]

avius m (genitive aviī or avī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. grandfather

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: aviu, aju
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: avi
  • Occitan: avi (Ariège)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: aio
  • Spanish: ayo

• “avius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• avius 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)
• avius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.