avidus

Latin

Etymology

From aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”) +‎ -idus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.wɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.vi.dus]

Adjective

avidus (feminine avida, neuter avidum, comparative avidior, superlative avidissimus, adverb avidē or aviditer); first/second-declension adjective

1. greedy, avaricious, covetous
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.2.75-76:

     nōn ego dīvitiās avidus sine fīne parandī
     lātum mūtandīs mercibus aequor arō

     Nor [do] I, greedy of procuring wealth without end,
     plow the wide sea to trade [my] wares.

2. eager, enthusiastic, desiring, desirous; lustful, passionate
3. (for food) eager, hungry, voracious, gluttonous; insatiable
4. (of space) vast, wide, large

Usage notes

In general, it is used with the following constructions: the genitive, in + accusative, or the dative.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	avidus	avida	avidum		avidī	avidae	avida
genitive	avidī	avidae	avidī		avidōrum	avidārum	avidōrum
dative	avidō	avidae	avidō		avidīs
accusative	avidum	avidam	avidum		avidōs	avidās	avida
ablative	avidō	avidā	avidō		avidīs
vocative	avide	avida	avidum		avidī	avidae	avida

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

• (antonym(s) of “desirous, eager”): incūriōsus, neglegēns
• (antonym(s) of “greedy”): beneficus, līberālis, mūnificus
• (antonym(s) of “vast”): parvus, paulus
• (antonym(s) of “voracious”): exsaturātus

Derived terms

• audeō
• avidē
• aviditās
• aviditer

Related terms

• avārē
• avāriter
• avāritia
• avāritiēs
• avārus
• avēns
• aventer
• aveō

Descendants

• Catalan: àvid
• English: avid
• Esperanto: avido
• French: avide
• Galician: ávido
• Italian: avido
• Occitan: avid
• Portuguese: ávido
• Romanian: avid
• Spanish: ávido

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
• “avidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.