Avitus

From avītus (“grandfather”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈu̯iː.tus/, [äˈu̯iːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈvi.tus/, [äˈviːt̪us]

Avītus m sg (genitive Avītī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gallonius Avitus, a Roman legate of Thrace

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Avitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.