avarus
Latin
Etymology
From aveō (“long for, crave”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈwaː.rus/, [aˈwaː.rʊs]
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Adjective
avārus (feminine avāra, neuter avārum); first/second declension
- covetous, greedy, avaricious
- (substantive) a greedy man; miser
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | avārus | avāra | avārum | avārī | avārae | avāra | |
| Genitive | avārī | avārae | avārī | avārōrum | avārārum | avārōrum | |
| Dative | avārō | avārae | avārō | avārīs | avārīs | avārīs | |
| Accusative | avārum | avāram | avārum | avārōs | avārās | avāra | |
| Ablative | avārō | avārā | avārō | avārīs | avārīs | avārīs | |
| Vocative | avāre | avāra | avārum | avārī | avārae | avāra | |
- comparative: avārior, superlative: avārissimus
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Descendants
References
- 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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