avaritia

From avārus (“greedy, avaricious, covetous”) +‎ -itia, from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.u̯aːˈri.ti.a/, [äu̯äːˈrɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.vaˈrit.t͡si.a/, [äväˈrit̪ː͡s̪iä]

avāritia f (genitive avāritiae); first declension

1. A greedy desire for possessions or gain; avarice, greed, greediness, covetousness, rapacity.

   Synonyms: cupīdō, appetītus, appetītiō, impetus, libīdō, dēsīderium, studium

2. Eagerness for food, gluttony, voracity.
3. Stinginess, niggardliness, miserliness, meanness.

First-declension noun.

• (avarice): avāritiēs

• “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.