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avidis

avidis is a Latin form of avidus, meaning “eager, desirous (+gen.); greedy”. It is the ablative plural masculine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 3.271: Continuoque avidis ubi subdita flamma medullis,

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 19: … nices, alii multitudinis domi minuendae gratia, pars imperi cupidine sollicitata plebe et aliis novarum rerum auidis, Hipponem Hadrumetum Leptim aliasque urbis in ora maritima condidere; eaeque brevi multum auctae, pars origin …

Plautus, Trinummus 4.1.825: nam te ómnes saevomqué severumque atque ávidis moribus cómmemorant,

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.