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avarus

Pronunciation: [aˈwaː.rʊs]

“avarus” is a Latin word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. covetous, greedy, avaricious

noun

  1. a greedy man; miser

Etymology

From the root of aveō (“long for, crave”) with the rare and probably fossilized suffix -ārus (the only other likely example of which is in amārus; compare also -ārius), perhaps reflecting Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₂-ros.

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