avarum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ava, avae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
grandmother; rooted prejudice, old wives tale;
gen. pl. - 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;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →avarus, avari:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
miser; stingy/mean/greedy person;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...consulatus deferretur. Eam rem plerisque admirantibus, quod hominem avarum, cui esset inimicissimus, creari consulem vellet, "malo," inquit "civis..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ridemus omnibus nobis accidere liqueat tibi: nemo se avarum esse intellegit, nemo cupidum. Caeci tamen ducem quaerunt..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...damnatus sit; dignum esse hereditate restitutorem: avarum impium ingratum qui dividere nolit cum fratre eoque sic merito: quaestionem..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...pergis pugnantia secum frontibus adversis conponere: non ego avarum cum veto te, fieri vappam iubeo ac nebulonem..."
