proavus

From pro- +‎ avus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.a.u̯us/, [ˈproäu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.a.vus/, [ˈprɔːävus]

proavus m (genitive proavī); second declension

1. great-grandfather
2. forefather, ancestor

Second-declension noun.

• proavia

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