aviditate

aviditate is a Latin form of aviditas, meaning “greed, covetousness; keen desire, lust/passion”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 5.20: … um profuderat. hic pecunias vestras aestimabat; possessiones notabat et urbanas et rusticas; huius mendicitas aviditate coniuncta in fortunas nostras imminebat; dividebat agros quibus et quos volebat; nullus aditus erat privato, …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 21.48.5: minus quam ad Ticinum fefellit; missisque Hannibal primum Numidis, deinde omni equitatu turbasset utique nouissimum agmen, ni auiditate praedae in uacua Romana castra Numidae deuertissent.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.10.2: Aviditate itaque rapiendi aliena festinans, petit impetu fidenti castella, unde subita animi consternatione defensores …

All forms of aviditas (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.