avid

See also: àvid

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French avide, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ævɪd/, /ævəd/

Adjective

avid (comparative more avid, superlative most avid)

1. enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something

   I'm an avid reader.

   • 1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

     A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.

   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3

     We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.

Usage notes

Usually followed by the preposition "to" then a verb e.g. avid to learn; or the preposition "for" then a noun e.g. avid for success (wanting success); also with the preposition "about" e.g. "He's avid about mechanics" (he's very interested in mechanics)

Derived terms

• avidly
• avidity
• avidness

Translations

enthusiastic; passionate

• Bulgarian: страстен (bg) (strasten)
• Czech: nadšený (cs) m, vášnivý (cs) m, zanícený m, zapálený (cs)
• Dutch: gretig (nl)
• French: avide (fr)
• German: passioniert (de), begeistert (de), eifrig (de), leidenschaftlich (de), enthusiastisch (de)
• Hebrew: נלהב
• Interlingue:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: avido (it)
• Latin: avidus (la)
• Portuguese: ávido (pt)
• Russian: зая́длый (ru) (zajádlyj), стра́стный (ru) (strástnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: gionach
• Slovak: nadšený m
• Spanish: ávido (es)

longing eagerly; eager; greedy

• Bulgarian: алчен (bg) (alčen), лаком (bg) (lakom), ненаситен (bg) (nenasiten)
• Czech: dychtivý, náruživý m
• Esperanto: avida (eo)
• German: sich verzehrend nach, sich sehnend, gierig (de)
• Hebrew: משתוקק
• Interlingue:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: avido (it)
• Latin: avidus (la)
• Portuguese: ávido (pt)
• Russian: а́лчный (ru) (álčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: gionach
• Spanish: ávido (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Finnish: innokas (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: ivrig

Anagrams

• AIVD, Adiv, Vida, diva

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Romanian

Etymology

From French avide, Latin avidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.vid]

Adjective

avid m or n (feminine singular avidă, masculine plural avizi, feminine and neuter plural avide)

1. avid, eager, desirous
2. greedy, grasping

Declension

Declension of avid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	avid		avidă	avizi	avide
	definite	avidul		avida	avizii	avidele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	avid		avide	avizi	avide
	definite	avidului		avidei	avizilor	avidelor