avarice的词源
英文词源
- avarice
- avarice: [13] The Latin verb avēre meant ‘covet’. One of its derivatives was the adjective avārus ‘greedy’, from which the noun avāritia was formed. This entered English via Old French avarice. Another of its derivatives was the adjective avidus ‘greedy’ which, as well as being the source of English avid [18], produced, via a hypothetical contracted form *audus, the adjective audax ‘bold’, source of English audacity [15].
=> audacity, avid - avarice (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French avarice "greed, covetousness" (12c.), from Latin avaritia "greed," from avarus "greedy," adjectival form of avere "crave, long for."
中文词源
发音释义：['ævərɪs] n. 贪婪，贪财
结构分析：avarice = avar（贪婪的）+ice（名词后缀）→贪婪
词源解释：avar←拉丁语avarus（贪婪的）←拉丁语avere（渴望）
同源词：avid（渴望的）
趣味记忆：avarice = ava（谐音“爱挖“）+rice（大米）→爱挖大米→贪婪；avarice = ava（鼻子两边瞪大的两只眼睛）+rice（大米）→瞪大眼睛看着面前的大米→贪婪
衍生词：avaricious（贪婪的）
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：avarice 词源，avarice 含义。
来自拉丁词avere, 渴望，词源同avid.
