avunculus
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Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, avus + -unculus. Actually from an n-stem noun suffixed with -culus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂-on-, a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Proto-Celtic *awontīr (“uncle”)[1][2] and possibly Proto-Germanic *awô (“grandfather”), from *h₂éwh₂os (“older male relative”)), whence also avus (“grandfather”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈu̯un.ku.lus/, [äˈu̯ʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈvun.ku.lus/, [äˈvuŋkulus]
Noun
[edit]avunculus m (genitive avunculī); second declension
- maternal uncle, mother's brother
- mother's sister's husband
- great-uncle
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | avunculus | avunculī |
| genitive | avunculī | avunculōrum |
| dative | avunculō | avunculīs |
| accusative | avunculum | avunculōs |
| ablative | avunculō | avunculīs |
| vocative | avuncule | avunculī |
Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [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, 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
[edit]- “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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