avarice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   reprehensible acquisitiveness

   Avarice drove the merchant to cheat his partners.

2. 2
   noun

   extreme greed for material wealth

   Avarice drove the merchant to cheat his partners.

Common collocations

• sordid avarice Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti Latin aveō Latin avārus Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Latin avāritiabor. Old French avaricebor. Middle English avarice English avarice From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”).

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