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avidus
avidus
Latin
Adjective
avidus m (feminine avida, neuter avidum); first/second declension
- Greedy, avaricious, covetous.
- Eager, desiring, desirous; lustful, passionate.
- (for food) Eager, hungry, voracious, gluttonous; insatiable.
- (of space) Vast, wide, large.
Usage notes
In general, it is used with the following constructions: the genitive, in + accusative, or the dative.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | avidus | avida | avidum | avidī | avidae | avida | |
| genitive | avidī | avidae | avidī | avidōrum | avidārum | avidōrum | |
| dative | avidō | avidō | avidīs | ||||
| accusative | avidum | avidam | avidum | avidōs | avidās | avida | |
| ablative | avidō | avidā | avidō | avidīs | |||
| vocative | avide | avida | avidum | avidī | avidae | avida | |
- comparative: avidior, superlative: avidissimus
Synonyms
- (desirous, eager): appetēns, cupiēns, cupidus, hiulcus
- (greedy, covetous): appetēns, avārus, cupidus
- (lustful): lascīvus, libīdinōsus, salāx
- (vast): effūsus, immānis, immensus, ingēns, magnus, vastus
- (voracious): edāx, vorāx
Antonyms
- (desirous, eager): incūriōsus, neglegēns
- (greedy): beneficus, līberālis, mūnificus
- (vast): parvus, paulus
- (voracious): exsaturātus
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References
- avidus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- avidus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “avidus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.