avide

See also: avidė

Esperanto

Adverb

avide

1. avidly, eagerly
   • 1952, F. Omelka, La Alaska stafeto, Project Gutenberg transcription

     La vunditaj hundoj avide ekmanĝis.

     The wounded dogs eagerly begin to eat.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin avidus (“greedy; eager; hungry”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vid/

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• Homophone: avides
• Rhymes: -id

Adjective

avide (plural avides)

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

Derived terms

• avidement

Related terms

• avidité

Further reading

• “avide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dévia, évida

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Italian

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective avido.

Anagrams

• devia, evadi

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Latin

Etymology

From avidus (“greedy; eager; hungry”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Adverb

avidē (comparative avidius, superlative avidissimē)

1. greedily, avariciously

   Synonyms: avārē, avāriter

2. hungrily, voraciously
3. eagerly, desirously

   Synonyms: appetenter, inhianter

Related terms

• audeō
• avārē
• avāriter
• avāritia
• avāritiēs
• avārus
• avēns
• aventer
• aveō
• aviditās
• aviditer
• avidus

 

References

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