adjective
prŏăvītus
Meaning
- belonging to a great-grandfather
prŏăvītus, a, um, adj. proavus,
I. of or belonging to a great-grandfather, or to one's ancestors, ancestral (poet.):
regna, inherited from his forefathers, Ov. M. 13, 416: rura, Stat. S. 4, 4, 83' potentia, Sil. 16, 254: medicamina didicit, id. 5, 366: facta, id. 11, 88.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
proavītus adj.
proavus, ancestral, inherited from forefathers : regna, O.