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{
"etymology_text": "From avidus (“greedy; eager; hungry”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).",
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"form": "avidē",
"tags": [
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},
{
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},
{
"form": "avidissimē",
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"superlative"
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}
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],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adv",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "audeō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "avārē"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "avāriter"
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{
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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},
{
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"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"greedily, avariciously"
],
"id": "en-avide-la-adv-CRALDWls",
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],
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"avariciously"
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],
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},
{
"word": "avāriter"
}
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},
{
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I have done this myself — I, who only took up the study of Greek literature in my old age. Indeed, I seized upon it with such hunger, as if I were trying to quench a deep and long-standing thirst, that I became so well-versed in the subject that you now see me drawing upon it for the very examples I use.",
"ref": "106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 26",
"text": "Et ego fēcī, quī litterās Graecās senex didicī; quās quidem sīc avidē arripuī, quasi diuturnam sitim explēre cupiēns, ut ea ipsa mihi nōta essent quibus mē nunc exemplīs ūtī vidētis.",
"translation": "I have done this myself — I, who only took up the study of Greek literature in my old age. Indeed, I seized upon it with such hunger, as if I were trying to quench a deep and long-standing thirst, that I became so well-versed in the subject that you now see me drawing upon it for the very examples I use.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"hungrily, voraciously"
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],
"glosses": [
"eagerly, desirously"
],
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"desirously"
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],
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"word": "appetenter"
},
{
"word": "inhianter"
}
]
}
],
"word": "avide"
}
{
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin lemmas",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_text": "From avidus (“greedy; eager; hungry”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).",
"forms": [
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"form": "avidē",
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},
{
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"pos": "adv",
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{
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},
{
"word": "avāriter"
},
{
"word": "avāritia"
},
{
"word": "avāritiēs"
},
{
"word": "avārus"
},
{
"word": "avēns"
},
{
"word": "aventer"
},
{
"word": "aveō"
},
{
"word": "aviditās"
},
{
"word": "aviditer"
},
{
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"greedily, avariciously"
],
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[
"greedily",
"greedily"
],
[
"avariciously",
"avariciously"
]
],
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},
{
"word": "avāriter"
}
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{
"english": "I have done this myself — I, who only took up the study of Greek literature in my old age. Indeed, I seized upon it with such hunger, as if I were trying to quench a deep and long-standing thirst, that I became so well-versed in the subject that you now see me drawing upon it for the very examples I use.",
"ref": "106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 26",
"text": "Et ego fēcī, quī litterās Graecās senex didicī; quās quidem sīc avidē arripuī, quasi diuturnam sitim explēre cupiēns, ut ea ipsa mihi nōta essent quibus mē nunc exemplīs ūtī vidētis.",
"translation": "I have done this myself — I, who only took up the study of Greek literature in my old age. Indeed, I seized upon it with such hunger, as if I were trying to quench a deep and long-standing thirst, that I became so well-versed in the subject that you now see me drawing upon it for the very examples I use.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"hungrily"
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"voraciously",
"voraciously"
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]
},
{
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"eagerly, desirously"
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"eagerly",
"eagerly"
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[
"desirously",
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],
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{
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}
]
}
],
"word": "avide"
}
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