avarities

Latin

Etymology

From avārus (“greedy, avaricious, covetous”) +‎ -itiēs, from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.waːˈrɪ.ti.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.vaˈrit.t͡si.es]

Noun

avāritiēs f (genitive avāritiēī); fifth declension

1. A greedy desire for possessions or gain; avarice, greediness, covetousness, rapacity.

Declension

Fifth-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	avāritiēs
genitive	avāritiēī
dative	avāritiēī
accusative	avāritiem
ablative	avāritiē
vocative	avāritiēs

Synonyms

• (avarice): avāritia

Related terms

• audeō
• avāre
• avāriter
• avāritia
• avārus
• avēns
• aventer
• aveō
• avidē
• aviditās
• aviditer
• avidus

References

• “avarities”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avarities”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.