aviditas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aviditās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vi.ˈdi.tas/
• Rhymes: -tas
• Hyphenation: a‧vi‧di‧tas

Noun

aviditas (plural aviditas-aviditas)

1. (biochemistry) avidity: The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins

Synonyms

• keavidan (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “aviditas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

From avidus (“greedy, covetous; eager”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈwɪ.dɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈviː.di.tas]

Noun

aviditās f (genitive aviditātis); third declension

1. An eagerness for something, avidity, longing, desire; covetousness, greed, avarice; gluttony, hunger
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.46:

     […] habeōque senectūtī magnam grātiam, quae mihi sermōnis aviditātem auxit, pōtiōnis et cibī sustulit.

     And I have such gratitude for old age, for it has increased my eagerness for conversation, while taking away [my hunger] for food and drink.

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.2:

     Est ille plūs quam capit, et ingentī aviditāte onerat distentum ventrem ac dēsuētum iam ventris officiō, ut maiōre opera omnia ēgerat quam ingessit.

     He is [eating] more than he can hold, and with insatiable gluttony he overstuffs his distended gut — in fact already beyond the regular business of a belly — so that he will be expelling it all with more effort than [when] he packed it in.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aviditās	aviditātēs
genitive	aviditātis	aviditātum
dative	aviditātī	aviditātibus
accusative	aviditātem	aviditātēs
ablative	aviditāte	aviditātibus
vocative	aviditās	aviditātēs

Related terms

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

Descendants

• English: avidity
• French: avidité
• Italian: avidità
• Romanian: aviditate

References

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