ave.
hail, hello, farewell, greetings! (a formal expression of greeting)
Meaning & usage
hail, hello, farewell, greetings! (a formal expression of greeting)
Avē̆ atque valē!
Avē̆ imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant!
Where this word comes from
Borrowed with an unspelled /h/ from Punic 𐤅𐤇 (ḥawe, “live!”, 2sg. imp.), cognate to Hebrew חוה (“Chava, the biblical Eve”), and as avō from Punic [script needed] (ḥawū, 2pl. imp.), from Semitic root ḥ-w-y (live). The form might have been contaminated by Etymology 2, especially as the latter one's long vowel also ended up short via iambic shortening; this would explain the reluctance to spell the aspirate, as well as its interpretation as a verb form. Attested since Plautus.
second-person singular present imperative of aveō
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vocative singular of avus
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ablative singular of avis
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