avarice
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
— By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.
- Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
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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”).
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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