avarus

Latin

Etymology

From the root of aveō (“long for, crave”) with the rare and probably fossilized suffix -ārus (the only other likely example of which is in amārus; compare also -ārius),[1] perhaps reflecting Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₂-ros.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈu̯aː.rus/, [äˈu̯äːrʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈva.rus/, [äˈväːrus]
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Adjective

avārus (feminine avāra, neuter avārum, comparative avārior, superlative avārissimus, adverb avārē or avāriter); first/second-declension adjective

  1. covetous, greedy, avaricious
    avārus est senex ― the old man is greedy

Declension

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • Catalan: avar
  • French: avare
  • Dalmatian: avaraus
  • Galician: avaro
  • Italian: avaro
  • Occitan: avar
  • Portuguese: avaro
  • Romanian: avar
  • Spanish: avaro

Noun

avārus m (genitive avārī); second declension

  1. a greedy man; miser

Declension

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References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “aveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 65

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