avunculus

A new population of this rare monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) has been discovered in a remote forest of Vietnam.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

Several other species are threatened, including the critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) and the tiger (Panthera tigris).

Northern Indochina subtropical forests 2007

Ian salutat avunculus Jacobus, the note began, and a grin broke out on Jamie's face.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

Credo sic mater, sic Liber avunculus ejus, Sic maternus avus dixerat, atque avia.

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

The word "Onkel" he detested as foreign, because it was derived from "avunculus" and

The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892

We learn from Servius that Virgil was censured for admitting _avunculus_ into epic verse; and Quintilian says that the prestige of ancient use alone permits the appearance in literature of words like _balare_, _hinnire_, and all imitative sounds.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

It is scarcely possible for two words to bear fewer outward marks of relationship, yet there is but one step between them, _avus_, _avunculus_, _uncle_.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

But Sintenis supposes that Plutarch may have misunderstood the Roman expression "avunculus maternus."

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

'patros', the mother's brother avunculus, in Greek specifically

The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

"scriptorum tuorum aeternitas;" also of "my uncle both by his own, and your works:" -- "avunculus meus et suis libris et tuis."

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852