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avarum

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

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.190: … stimationem pervenirent. in hoc genere facilior est existimatio quam reprehensio, ideo quod eum qui hoc facit avarum possumus existimare, crimen in eo constituere non tam facile possumus, quod videtur concedendum magistratibus …

Apuleius, Apologia 20: … uippe qui inopia desiderio, opulentia fastidio cernuntur. igitur, Aemiliane, si pauperem me haberi uis, prius auarum esse doceas necesse est. quod si nihil in animo deest, de rebus extrariis quantum desit non laboro, quarum ne …

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.