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Etymology
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From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).
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- IPA(key): /ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/
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Adjective
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avaricious (comparative more avaricious, superlative most avaricious)
- Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
1835, Robert Montgomery Bird, The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow:In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...
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actuated by avarice
- Armenian: ագահ (hy) (agah)
- Bulgarian: алчен (bg) (alčen), користолюбив (bg) (koristoljubiv)
- Catalan: avariciós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 愛財／爱财 (zh) (àicái), 貪婪／贪婪 (zh) (tānlán)
- Czech: chamtivý (cs)
- Dutch: inhalig (nl), avaricieus
- Esperanto: avara (eo)
- Finnish: ahne (fi)
- French: avare (fr)
- Georgian: ძუნწი (ʒunc̣i), ხელმოჭერილი (xelmoč̣erili), ხარბი (ka) (xarbi), გაუმაძღარი (gaumaʒɣari), ვერცხლისმოყვარე (vercxlismoq̇vare)
- German: habgierig (de), habsüchtig (de), gierig (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: πλεονέκτης (pleonéktēs), φιλοκερδής (philokerdḗs)
- Hungarian: fösvény (hu)
- Ido: avara (io)
- Irish: gabhálach, maoinchíocrach
- Italian: avaro (it)
- Japanese: 強欲な (ja) (ごうよくな, gōyoku na)
- Latin: avārus
- Maori: avaricious
- Plautdietsch: bejierich
- Polish: skąpy (pl) m, chciwy (pl) m
- Portuguese: avarento (pt)
- Romanian: avar (ro) m
- Russian: а́лчный (ru) (álčnyj), жа́дный (ru) (žádnyj), скупо́й (ru) (skupój), корыстолюби́вый (ru) (korystoljubívyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: sanntach, gionach
- Spanish: avaricioso (es), avaro (es), avariento (es), codicioso (es)
- Swedish: girig (sv)
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