avaritia Latin · revision 6845

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [a.waːˈrɪ.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [a.vaˈrit.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''avāritia''' ''f'' (genitive avāritiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|avārus|-itia|t1=greedy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''Avārus'' is from [[aveō]] “to be eager”, from [[itc-pro|*awē-]], [[ine-pro|*h₂ew-éh₁-|t=to enjoy, consume]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, whose character says greed was never born in him, he has riches enough.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant greed of gain, avarice, rapacity, and an act of greed, opposed by Suetonius to ''abstinentia''; it also meant miserliness, stinginess, as Plautus' worry that people will call him mean.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Gaffiot gives the wider sense of eager desire, covetousness.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Christian and Medieval Latin it was greed, one of the deadly sins, as in Bede.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''avarizia'' and Spanish ''avaricia''.^(Wiktionary) Through Old French it is the source of [[en|avarice]], recorded about 1300 as the fifth deadly sin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of greed and meanness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''avarice'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|Greed]], [[m|en|avarice]], rapacity.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Miserliness, stinginess.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[avāre]]

+ * [[avāriter]]

+ * [[avāritiēs]]

+ * [[avārus]]

+ * [[avēns]]

+ * [[aventer]]

+ * [[aveō]]

+ * [[avidē]]

+ * [[aviditās]]

+ * [[en|avarice]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}