avunculum

avunculum is a Latin form of avunculus, meaning “uncle (mother's brother)”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 125: … ta persona falsum testamentum obsignandum curaverit, qui eum cuius nomine id obsignatum est interfecerit, qui avunculum fili sui in servitute ac vinculis necaverit, qui municipes suos proscribendos occidendosque curaverit, qui ei …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 8.1: … ilitaribus donis triumpho Caesaris Africano donatus est, quanquam expers belli propter aetatem. profectum mox auunculum in Hispanias aduersus Cn. Pompei liberos uixdum firmus a graui ualitudine per infestas hostibus uias paucissi …

Seneca the Younger, Ad Helviam Matrem de Consolatione 2.4: … anta uel in filia conspici potest, matrem fieri coegisti; nulli tamen non magno constitit etiam bona nouerca. Auunculum indulgentissimum, optimum ac fortissimum uirum, cum aduentum eius expectares, amisisti; et ne saeuitiam suam …

All forms of avunculus (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.