I.a grandmother on the father's or the mother's side: “Matres duas habet et avias duas,” Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 34: “anus avia,” Curt. 3, 11, 25; Vulg. 2 Tim. 1, 5: “avia tam paterna quam materna,” Dig. 38, 10, 10: Inter avam et neptem tu mediata agas, Ven. Fort. 8, Carm. 18, 8.—Meton., a prejudice, as it were, inherited from a grandmother: “dum veteres avias tibi de pulmone revello,” old wives' fables, Pers. 5, 92, ubi v. Gildersleeve.
ăvĭa , or in late Lat., ăva , ae, f. avus,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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