avare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →avarus, avara -um, avarior -or -us, avarissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
avaricious, greedy; stingy, miserly, mean; covetous, hungry for;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →avarus, avari:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
miser; stingy/mean/greedy person;
voc. sg. - Entry →avare, avarius, avarissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
greedily, avariciously, rapaciously; thriftily, economically, stingily, miserly;
Examples
- T
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...esses leno, id metuebas miser, impure, avare, ne crumillam amitteres? TOX. Sine quaeso. quando lenost, nil mirum facit..." - P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...utramque partem ingenium quid possit meum. [si numquam avare pretium statui arti meae et eum esse quaestum..." - P
Hecyra
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...auctoritas meae auctoritati fautrix adiutrixque sit. si numquam avare pretium statui arti meae et eum esse quaestum..." - T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...eliciuntur [et] eripitur persona manet res. denique avarities et honorum caeca cupido, quae miseros homines cogunt transcendere fines..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Damnatus isdem consulibus Vipsanius Laenas ob Sardiniam provinciam avare habitam; absolutus Cestius Proculus repetundarum Cretensibus accusantibus. Clodius Quirinalis..."
