aviditas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aviditās.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.vi.ˈdi.tas/
  • Rhymes: -tas
  • Hyphenation: a‧vi‧di‧tas

Noun

aviditas (plural aviditas-aviditas, first-person possessive aviditasku, second-person possessive aviditasmu, third-person possessive aviditasnya)

  1. (biochemistry) avidity: The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.

Synonyms

  • keavidan (Standard Malay)

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From avidus (greedy, covetous; eager) + -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

aviditās f (genitive aviditātis); third declension

  1. An eagerness for something, avidity, longing; covetousness, greed, avarice; gluttony, hunger.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aviditās aviditātēs
Genitive aviditātis aviditātum
Dative aviditātī aviditātibus
Accusative aviditātem aviditātēs
Ablative aviditāte aviditātibus
Vocative aviditās aviditātēs

Descendants

  • English: avidity
  • French: avidité
  • Italian: avidità

References

  • aviditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aviditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aviditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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