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avide

avide is a Latin form of avidus, meaning “eager, desirous (+gen.); greedy”. It is the adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.36: … que ut haec tabificae mentis perturbationes sunt, aegritudinem dico et metum, sic hilariores illae, cupiditas avide semper aliquid expetens et inanis alacritas, id est laetitia gestiens, non multum differunt ab amentia. ex qu …

Suetonius, Tiberius 59.1.8: tam bibit hunc auide, quam bibit ante merum.

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.