avaritia
Latin
Etymology
From avārus (“greedy, avaricious, covetous”) + -itia, from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.u̯aːˈri.ti.a/, [äu̯äːˈrɪt̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.vaˈrit.t͡si.a/, [äväˈrit̪ː͡s̪iä]
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Noun
avāritia f (genitive avāritiae); first declension
- A greedy desire for possessions or gain; avarice, greed, greediness, covetousness, rapacity.
- Synonyms: cupīdō, appetītus, appetītiō, impetus, libīdō, dēsīderium, studium
- Eagerness for food, gluttony, voracity.
- Stinginess, niggardliness, miserliness, meanness.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | avāritia | avāritiae |
| Genitive | avāritiae | avāritiārum |
| Dative | avāritiae | avāritiīs |
| Accusative | avāritiam | avāritiās |
| Ablative | avāritiā | avāritiīs |
| Vocative | avāritia | avāritiae |
Synonyms
- (avarice): avāritiēs
Related terms
- audeō
- avāre
- avāriter
- avāritiēs
- avārus
- avēns
- aventer
- aveō
- avidē
- aviditās
- aviditer
- avidus
Descendants
- Catalan: avarícia
- Old French: avarice
- → English: avarice
- French: avarice
- Italian: avarizia
- Polish: awarycja
- Portuguese: avareza, avarícia
- Romanian: avariție
- Spanish: avaricia
References
- “avaritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “avaritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- avaritia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- avaritia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette