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語源

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”) and possibly Proto-Germanic *awô (“grandfather”), from *h₂éwh₂os (“older male relative”)), whence also avus (“grandfather”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈwʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈvuŋ.ku.lus]

名詞

avunculus m (genitive avunculī); second declension

1. (Classical Latin) maternal uncle, mother's brother
2. (Vulgar Latin) uncle (maternal or paternal)
3. mother's sister's husband
4. great-uncle

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参考

参照

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 941 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “avoncle”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “avunculus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1252

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, 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.