ávido

Learned borrowing from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

ávido (feminine ávida, masculine plural ávidos, feminine plural ávidas)

1. avid, eager

• “ávido”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• avido (pre-reform spelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin avidus.

• Rhymes: -avidu
• Hyphenation: á‧vi‧do

ávido (feminine ávida, masculine plural ávidos, feminine plural ávidas)

1. eager (excited by desire in the pursuit of any object)
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A tia Izabel [Aunt Izabel]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 174:

     A solteirona é pretenciosa, presumida, avida de attrahir a attenção.

     The single woman is pretentious, presumptuous, eager to attract attention.

Borrowed from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈabido/ [ˈa.β̞i.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -abido
• Syllabification: á‧vi‧do

ávido (feminine ávida, masculine plural ávidos, feminine plural ávidas)

1. avid, keen, eager
2. greedy

   Synonym: avido

3. anxious

   Synonym: ansioso

• “ávido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024