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avidae

avidae is a Latin form of avidus, meaning “eager, desirous (+gen.); greedy”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 39: … aximo. nullam capitaliorem pestem quam voluptatem corporis hominibus dicebat a natura datam, cuius voluptatis avidae libidines temere et effrenate ad potiendum incitarentur.

Silius Italicus, Punica 14.622: et minuere auidae mortis contagia pestes,

All forms of avidus (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.