avide

• IPA^(key): /aˈvide/

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• Rhymes: -ide
• Syllabification: a‧vi‧de

avide

1. avidly, eagerly
   • 1952, F. Omelka, La Alaska stafeto‎^[1]:

     La vunditaj hundoj avide ekmanĝis.

     The wounded dogs eagerly begin to eat.

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

• IPA^(key): /a.vid/

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• Homophone: avides
• Rhymes: -id

avide (plural avides)

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

• avidement

• avidité

• “avide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• dévia, évida

avide

1. second-person plural imperative of avir

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

avide f pl

1. feminine plural of avido

• devia, evadi

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

avidē (comparative avidius, superlative avidissimē)

1. greedily, avariciously

   Synonyms: avārē, avāriter

2. hungrily, voraciously
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 26:

     Et ego fēcī, quī litterās Graecās senex didicī; quās quidem sīc avidē arripuī, quasi diuturnam sitim explēre cupiēns, ut ea ipsa mihi nōta essent quibus mē nunc exemplīs ūtī vidētis.

     I have done this myself — I, who only took up the study of Greek literature in my old age. Indeed, I seized upon it with such hunger, as if I were trying to quench a deep and long-standing thirst, that I became so well-versed in the subject that you now see me drawing upon it for the very examples I use.

3. eagerly, desirously

   Synonyms: appetenter, inhianter

• “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.

• IPA^(key): (avidè) [ɐvʲɪˈdʲɛ], (avìde) [ɐˈvʲɪ.dʲɛ]

avidè

1. instrumental singular of avi̇̀dė (“sheepfold”)

avi̇̀de

1. vocative singular of avi̇̀dė (“sheepfold”)