avarice

avarice
\ \ [13] The Latin verb avēre meant ‘covet’.
\ \ One of its derivatives was the adjective avārus ‘greedy’, from which the noun avāritia was formed. This entered English via Old French avarice. Another of its derivatives was the adjective avidus ‘greedy’ which, as well as being the source of English avid [18], produced, via a hypothetical contracted form *audus, the adjective audax ‘bold’, source of English audacity [15].
\ \ Cf.⇒ AUDACITY, AVID

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  • avarice — [ avaris ] n. f. • 1265; averice 1121; lat. avaritia → avare ♦ Vx Attachement excessif à l argent, passion d accumuler, de retenir les richesses. ⇒ avidité, cupidité, ladrerie, lésine. ♢ Mod. Une avarice sordide. ⇒ pingrerie, radinerie. « L… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • avarice — Avarice, Brusler d avarice, Auaritia ardere. Bruslant et baaillant d avarice, Auaritia hiante homo. Regner en avarice et en cruauté sur ses subjects, Auare atque acerbe imperare. Sec d avarice, Aridus homo. Une avarice merveilleuse, Profunda… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Avarice — • The inordinate love for riches Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Avarice     Avarice     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • avarice — AVARICE. s. fém. Attachement excessif aux richesses. Avarice insatiable. Avarice sordide Il se plaint tout par avarice, par pure avarice. Son avarice le fait vivre dans une épargne sordide …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • avarice — Avarice. sub. f. Trop grand attachement aux richesses. Avarice sordide. avarice insatiable. sale avarice. par pure avarice …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Avarice — Av a*rice ([a^]v [.a]*r[i^]s), n. [F. avaritia, fr. avarus avaricious, prob. fr. av[=e]re to covet, fr. a root av to satiate one s self: cf. Gr. a menai, a^sai, to satiate, Skr. av to satiate one s self, rejoice, protect.] 1. An excessive or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • avarice — c.1300, from O.Fr. avarice greed, covetousness (12c.), from L. avaritia greed, from avarus greedy, adj. form of avere crave, long for …   Etymology dictionary

  • avarice — index greed Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • avarice — greed, *cupidity, rapacity Analogous words: avariciousness, covetousness, acquisitiveness (see corresponding adjectives at COVETOUS): stinginess, niggardliness, miserliness, parsimoniousness (see corresponding adjectives at STINGY) Antonyms:… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • avarice — [n] extreme greed avidity, close fistedness*, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, pennypinching*, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift; concepts 335,410 Ant. generosity,… …   New thesaurus

  • avarice — ► NOUN ▪ extreme greed for wealth or material gain. DERIVATIVES avaricious adjective. ORIGIN from Latin avarus greedy …   English terms dictionary

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