avidus

From aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”) + -idus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.wɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.vi.dus]

avidus (feminine avida, neuter avidum, comparative avidior, superlative avidissimus, adverb avidē or aviditer); first/second-declension adjective

1. greedy, avaricious, covetous
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.2.75-76:

     nōn ego dīvitiās avidus sine fīne parandī
     lātum mūtandīs mercibus aequor arō

     Nor [do] I, greedy of procuring wealth without end,
     plow the wide sea to trade [my] wares.

2. eager, enthusiastic, desiring, desirous; lustful, passionate
3. (for food) eager, hungry, voracious, gluttonous; insatiable
4. (of space) vast, wide, large

In general, it is used with the following constructions: the genitive, in + accusative, or the dative.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (desirous, eager): appetēns, cupiēns, cupidus, hiulcus
• (greedy, covetous): appetēns, avārus, cupidus
• (lustful): lascīvus, libīdinōsus, salāx
• (vast): effūsus, immānis, immensus, ingēns, magnus, vastus
• (voracious): edāx, vorāx

• (antonym(s) of “desirous, eager”): incūriōsus, neglegēns
• (antonym(s) of “greedy”): beneficus, līberālis, mūnificus
• (antonym(s) of “vast”): parvus, paulus
• (antonym(s) of “voracious”): exsaturātus

• “avidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “avidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.