avare

avare

1. covetously

From a modification of the older popular form aver after the original etymology, Latin avarus.

• IPA^(key): /a.vaʁ/

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avare (plural avares)

1. stingy, skinflint

avare m or f (plural avares)

1. scrooge, miser

• “avare” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• avéra

avare

1. Feminine plural of adjective avaro.

avare f pl

1. feminine plural of avaro

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈwaː.reː/

avārē (comparative avārius, superlative avārissimē)

1. greedily, avariciously, covetously

   Synonyms: avāriter, avidē, aviditer

2. stingily

   Synonym: avāriter

• 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

Borrowed from French avare.

avare m (plural avares)

1. (Jersey) miser

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