The story
- Latin · derived fromavaritia“greed”
- Old French · derived fromavaricieux
- Middle English · inherited fromavaricious
- English todayavaricious
From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).
Words from the same roots
Latinavaritia all →
avarice
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.