avare

See also: avarè and Avaré

Esperanto

Adverb

avare

1. covetously

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French

Etymology

From a modification of the older popular form aver after the original etymology, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin avarus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

avare (plural avares)

1. stingy, skinflint

Noun

avare m or f (plural avares)

1. scrooge, miser

Anagrams

• avéra

Further reading

• “avare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Adjective

avare f pl

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) feminine plural of avaro

Noun

avare f pl

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of avara

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Latin

Etymology

From avārus (“avaricious, covetous, greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈu̯aː.reː/, [äˈu̯äːreː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈva.re/, [äˈväːre]

Adverb

avārē (comparative avārius, superlative avārissimē)

1. greedily, avariciously, covetously
2. stingily

Synonyms

• (greedily): avāriter, avidē, aviditer
• (stingily): avāriter

References

• “avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• avare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

avare m (plural avares)

1. (Jersey) miser

Synonyms

• agravé
• rapinneux