avos

avos is a Latin form of avus, meaning “grandfather; (pl.) ancestors”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 21: … ui Aristides esset Lysimachum salutare solitum? equidem non modo eos novi qui sunt, sed eorum patres etiam et avos, nec sepulcra legens vereor, quod aiunt, ne memoriam perdam; his enim ipsis legendis in memoriam redeo mortuo …

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 14·2: Verum ego iis finibus eiectus sum, quos maioribus meis populus Romanus dedit, unde pater et auos meus una vobiscum expulere Syphacem et Carthaginiensis. Vestra beneficia mihi erepta sunt, patres conscripti, …

All forms of avus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.