tritavus

• stritavus
• tritavos, stritavos (pre-classical)

From tri- +‎ avus. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from an ordinal? see also alt forms”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪ.ta.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtriː.ta.vus]

tritavus m (genitive tritavī, feminine tritavia); second declension

1. great-great-great-great-grandfather
   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 1.2.3–7:

     Nam numquam quisquam meorum maiorum fuit,
     quin parasitando paverint ventres suos:
     pater, avos, proavos, abavos, atavos, tritavos
     quasi mures semper edere alienum cibum,
     neque edacitate eos quisquam poterat vincere; […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun (alternative genitive plural in -um).

• tritavia

• “tritavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "tritavus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tritavus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.