Where does “avid” come from?
avid (Romanian) comes from French avide, from Latin avidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.
avid (Romanian): avid, eager, desirous; greedy, grasping
Definitions
- avid, eager, desirous; greedy, grasping
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 | — |