aviditas

Definitiones

An eagerness for something, avidity, longing, desire; covetousness, greed, avarice; gluttony, hunger

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Aequivalentia

Exempla

“[…] habeōque senectūtī magnam grātiam, quae mihi sermōnis aviditātem auxit, pōtiōnis et cibī sustulit.”

And I have such gratitude for old age, for it has increased my eagerness for conversation, while taking away [my hunger] for food and drink.

“Est ille plūs quam capit, et ingentī aviditāte onerat distentum ventrem ac dēsuētum iam ventris officiō, ut maiōre opera omnia ēgerat quam ingessit.”

He is [eating] more than he can hold, and with insatiable gluttony he overstuffs his distended gut — in fact already beyond the regular business of a belly — so that he will be expelling it all with more effort than [when] he packed it in.

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