avus

If [he said] the expectation raised by the splints of horses that, in some ancestor of the horses, these splints would be found to be complete digits, has been verified, we are furnished with very strong reasons for looking for a no less complete verification of the expectation that the three-toed Plagiolophus-like "avus" of the horse must have been a five-toed "atavus" at some early period.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Professor Huxley, speaking in 1870, said, "If the expectation raised by the splints of the horses that, in some ancestor of the horses, these splints would be found to be complete digits, has been verified, we are furnished with very strong reasons for looking for a no less complete verification that the three-toed _plagiolophus_-like 'avus' of the horse must have had a five-toed 'atavus' at some earlier period.

The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution George John Romanes 1871

Quaestor avus pater atque meus, patruusque fuissent.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Your avus Caesar was against marriage between any of you.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Verum ego iis finibus ejectus sum, quos majoribus meis populus Romanus dedit, unde pater et avus meus una vobiscum expulere Syphacem et Carthaginienses.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Perseus fílius erat Iovis, máximí deórum; avus éius Acrisius appellábátur.

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

Credo sic mater, sic Liber avunculus ejus, Sic maternus avus dixerat, atque avia.

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

The Claude Lorraine glass is a rara avus, and not only gives new lights to the scenery, but brings out the human nature on board in great force.

Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

It is scarcely possible for two words to bear fewer outward marks of relationship, yet there is but one step between them, _avus_, _avunculus_, _uncle_.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

Another etymological example sometimes cited is the derivation of the English _uncle_ from the Latin _avus_.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839