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) (biochemistry) avidity: The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins ==== Synonyms ==== keavidan (Standard Malay) === Further reading === “aviditas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Etymology === From avidus (“greedy, covetous; eager”) +‎ -tās. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈwɪ.dɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈviː.di.tas] === Noun === aviditās f (genitive aviditātis); third declension An eagerness for something, avidity, longing, desire; covetousness, greed, avarice; gluttony, hunger ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: avidity French: avidité Italian: avidità Romanian: aviditate === 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.