avide

Adverb

avide

1. avidly, eagerly
   • 1952, F. Omelka, La Alaska stafeto, Project Gutenberg transcription

     La vunditaj hundoj avide ekmanĝis.

     The wounded dogs eagerly begin to eat.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin avidus (“greedy; eager; hungry”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vid/

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• Homophone: avides

Adjective

avide (plural avides)

1. avid, eager, desirous
2. greedy, grasping

Further reading

• “avide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dévia, évida

Adjective

avide f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective avido.

Anagrams

• devia, evadi

Etymology

From avidus (“greedy; eager; hungry”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Adverb

avidē (comparative avidius, superlative avidissimē)

1. greedily, avariciously

   Synonyms: avārē, avāriter

2. hungrily, voraciously
3. eagerly, desirously

   Synonyms: appetenter, inhianter

References

• avide in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• avide in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• avide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette