Etymology

rapacious

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Today it means: Voracious; avaricious. Full definition →

Latin rapāx
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromrapāx“grasping, greedy”
  2. English todayrapacious

Perhaps from rapacity + -ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapāx (“grasping, greedy”) + -acious.

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