Where does “avide” come from?
avide (Italian) comes from Italian avido, from Latin avidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.
avide (Italian): feminine plural of avido
Ancestry of “avide”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | avido | greedy; eager, avid |
| 2 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 3 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |