avaritia

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.u̯aːˈri.ti.a/, [äu̯äːˈrɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.vaˈrit.t͡si.a/, [äväˈrit̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

avāritia f (genitive avāritiae); first declension

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

   Synonyms: cupīdō, appetītus, appetītiō, impetus, libīdō, dēsīderium, studium

2. Eagerness for food, gluttony, voracity.
3. Stinginess, niggardliness, miserliness, meanness.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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.