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Significatio vocis avus | Babel Free

Nomen masculinum CEFR B1
[ˈa.wʊs]

Definitiones

  1. grandfather
    declension-2, masculine
  2. a river in Portugal; modern Ave
    declension-2, masculine, singular
  3. ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forebear
    declension-2, masculine
  4. old man
    declension-2, masculine

Aequivalentia

English Ancestor grandfather old man

Exempla

“… māternō veniēns ab avō Cyllēnia prōlēs.”

[... Mercury, that] child of [Mount] Cyllene, approaching from [the mountain of] his maternal grandfather, [Atlas]. (Mount Atlas is personified as the Titan Atlas, father of Maia, the mother of Mercury, who was born on Mount Cyllene.)

Gradus CEFR

B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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Vide etiam

axāmenta axamentis axamentorum Axanthos Axatis Axatitānus

Hoc verbum in contextu disce

Vide avus in veris colloquiis adhibitum in cursu nostro linguae gratuito.

Cursum Gratuitum Incipe

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