avide

See also: avidė and avidę

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈvide/
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  • Rhymes: -ide
  • Hyphenation: a‧vi‧de

Adverb

avide

  1. avidly, eagerly
    • 1952, F. Omelka, La Alaska stafeto[1]:
      La vunditaj hundoj avide ekmanĝis.
      The wounded dogs eagerly begin to eat.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin avidus (greedy; eager; hungry), from aveō (wish, desire, long for, crave).

Pronunciation

Adjective

avide (plural avides)

  1. avid, eager, desirous
  2. greedy, grasping

Derived terms

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Galician

Verb

avide

  1. second-person plural imperative of avir

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.vi.de/
  • Rhymes: -avide
  • Hyphenation: à‧vi‧de

Adjective

avide f pl

  1. feminine plural of avido

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From avidus (greedy; eager; hungry), from aveō (wish, desire, long for, crave).

Adverb

avidē (comparative avidius, superlative avidissimē)

  1. greedily, avariciously
    Synonyms: avārē, avāriter
  2. hungrily, voraciously
  3. eagerly, desirously
    Synonyms: appetenter, inhianter

References

  • avide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • avide”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • avide”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (avidè) [ɐvʲɪˈdʲɛ], (avìde) [ɐˈvʲɪ.dʲɛ]

Noun

avidè

  1. instrumental singular of avi̇̀dė (sheepfold)

Noun

avi̇̀de

  1. vocative singular of avi̇̀dė (sheepfold)