Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 204.auārus on page 204
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avārus Greedy
avārus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means Greedy.
Definitions for avārus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
greedy, avaricious
English derivatives:
avarice
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Greedy for money or gain, avaricious, rapacious. (b) (masc. or fem. as sb.) an avarious or greedy man or woman.
- 2
Miserly, stingy, niggardly, mean. (b) (masc. as sb.) a stingy person, miser.
- 3
(poet. of things, etc.) Greedy, hungry (for). (b) (applied to abst. sbs.).
Sentences with avārus
Latin to English
Avārus animus nūllō satiātur lucrō.Compare A greedy mind is satisfied with no (amount of) gain. (Publilius Syrus 55)
Semper avarus eget; certum voto pete finem.Compare The covetous is a beggar always. Try to find a definite limit to your wishing.
Carmine formosae, pretio avarae: gaudeat, ut digna est, versibus illa novis. (Elegiae, I, 7)Compare Beautiful girls are won by poetry, greedy girls by money: may (Neaera) enjoy these verses as she deserves.
Utrum avarus an crudelis sum, vix existimo possum.Compare It can scarcely be computed, whether he is more avaricous or more cruel.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 21.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 204.
- Word frequencies
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "avārus, avāra (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/avarus-avara.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 21.avārus, avāra on page 21
