Avus

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Avus f

1. acronym of Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße, a major road in Berlin

Of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.vus]

Avus m sg (genitive Avī); second declension

1. a river in Portugal; modern Ave

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Portuguese: Ave

• “Gallaecia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly