avó

• avolo

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese avoo (“grandfather”), from local Medieval Latin avolo,[1] from Vulgar Latin *avoilu- < *aviōlus, diminutive of Latin avus (“grandfather”). Compare Asturian güelu, French aïeul, Portuguese avô, Spanish abuelo.

• IPA^(key): /aˈβo̝/

avó m (plural avós)

1. grandfather
2. (in the plural) grandparents
   • 1269, J. L. Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 245:

     meu auoo don Ruy Zerbo e sa moler dona Marina Sanchez, que foron meus auoos

     my granfather Don Roi Cerbo and his wife Dona Mariña Sánchez, who were my granparents

• avoa

• “avoo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “auoo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “avó” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “avó” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “avó” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese avoa (“grandmother”), from Vulgar Latin *avoila- (“grandmother”, root) < *aviōla, diminutive of Latin avia (“grandmother”), from avus (“grandfather”). Compare French aïeule, Galician avoa, Spanish abuela.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ˈvɔ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ˈvɔ/
• Hyphenation: a‧vó

avó f (plural avós) (masculine avô, masculine plural avôs)

1. grandmother, female grandparent

   Antonym: avô

• bisavó
• trisavó
• tataravó/tetaravó

• neto/neta