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avia, a grandmother

ăvĭa, or in late Lat., ăva, ae, f. [avus],
  • a grandmother on the father’s or the mother’s side: Matres duas habet et avias duas, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 34 (808): 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, ae, f.,
  • a plant, = senecio or erigeron, groundsel, Col. 6, 14, 3; 6, 14, 6; Veg. Art. Vet. 4, 14, 2; 4, 15, 4; cf. Schneid. ad h. ll.

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