avarus

Latin

Etymology

From the root of aveō (“long for, crave”) with the rare and probably fossilized suffix -ārus (the only other likely example of which is in amārus; compare also -ārius), perhaps reflecting Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₂-ros.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈu̯aː.rus/, [äˈu̯äːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈva.rus/, [äˈväːrus]

Adjective

avārus (feminine avāra, neuter avārum, comparative avārior, superlative avārissimus, adverb avārē or avāriter); first/second-declension adjective

1. covetous, greedy, avaricious

   avārus est senex ― the old man is greedy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	avārus	avāra	avārum		avārī	avārae	avāra
genitive	avārī	avārae	avārī		avārōrum	avārārum	avārōrum
dative	avārō	avārae	avārō		avārīs
accusative	avārum	avāram	avārum		avārōs	avārās	avāra
ablative	avārō	avārā	avārō		avārīs
vocative	avāre	avāra	avārum		avārī	avārae	avāra

Derived terms

• avāriter
• avāritia

Related terms

• aveō

Descendants

• Catalan: avar
• French: avare
• Dalmatian: avaraus
• Galician: avaro
• Italian: avaro
• Occitan: avar
• Portuguese: avaro
• Romanian: avar
• Spanish: avaro

Noun

avārus m (genitive avārī); second declension

1. a greedy man; miser

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	avārus	avārī
genitive	avārī	avārōrum
dative	avārō	avārīs
accusative	avārum	avārōs
ablative	avārō	avārīs
vocative	avāre	avārī

Further reading

• “avarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• avarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.