Where does “avid” come from?
Avid comes from French avide, from Latin avidus, from Latin aveo, from Proto-Italic awēō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ew-.
avid (English): enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest...
Definitions
- enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest...
Ancestry of “avid”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | avide | avid, eager, desirous; greedy, grasping |
| 2 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 3 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |
Words derived from “avid”