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avari

avari is a Latin form of avarus, meaning “greedy, avaricious; (noun) miser”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 2.115: … intersit. sed nimirum, ut quidam morbo aliquo et sensus stupore suavitatem cibi non sentiunt, sic libidinosi, avari, facinerosi verae laudis gustatum non habent. sed si te laus adlicere ad recte faciendum non potest, ne metus …

Seneca the Younger, De Ira 2.10.7: … antium, hoc cotidie procedit animo: 'multi mihi occurrent uino dediti, multi libidinosi, multi ingrati, multi auari, multi furiis ambitionis agitati.' Omnia ista tam propitius aspiciet quam aegros suos medicus.

Phaedrus, Fabulae appendix.5.8: Avari describuntur, quos circumfluit

All forms of avarus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.