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avaritia
avaritia
Latin
Noun
avāritia f (genitive avāritiae); first declension
- A greedy desire for possessions or gain; avarice, greediness, covetousness, rapacity.
- Eagerness for food, gluttony, voracity.
- Stinginess, niggardliness, miserliness, meanness.
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | 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
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “avaritia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.