avó

• avolo, avóo
• avô (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese avoo, from Iberian Early Medieval Latin avolo,^[1] from Vulgar Latin *av(i)olum, ultimately from Latin avus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbo/ [aˈβ̞o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: a‧vó

avó m (plural avós, feminine avoa, feminine plural avoas)

1. grandfather
2. (in the plural) grandparents
   • 1269, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, 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 grandfather Don Roi Cerbo and his wife Dona Mariña Sánchez, who were my granparents

• avoa
• bisavó
• trasavó

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “avoo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “auoo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “avó”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “avó”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “avó”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

avoa (Trás-os-Montes)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese avoa, from Late Latin aviola, diminutive of Latin avia.

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• Hyphenation: a‧vó

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

1. grandmother, female grandparent

   Synonyms: (Brazil, endearing) vovó, (clipping) vó

   Coordinate term: avô

• neto, neta