See also: avidė

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avide

  1. avidly, eagerly
    • 1952, F. Omelka, La Alaska stafeto[1]:
      La vunditaj hundoj avide ekmanĝis.
      The wounded dogs eagerly begin to eat.

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

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avide (plural avides)

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

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avide

  1. second-person plural imperative of avir

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  • IPA(key): /ˈa.vi.de/
  • Rhymes: -avide
  • Hyphenation: à‧vi‧de

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avide f pl

  1. feminine plural of avido

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

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avidē (comparative avidius, superlative avidissimē)

  1. greedily, avariciously
    Synonyms: avārē, avāriter
  2. hungrily, voraciously
  3. eagerly, desirously
    Synonyms: appetenter, inhianter

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  • 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