avaritia

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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

A greedy desire for possessions or gain; avarice, greed, greediness, covetousness, rapacity.
Synonyms: cupīdō, appetītus, appetītiō, impetus, libīdō, dēsīderium, studium
Eagerness for food, gluttony, voracity.
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

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.