aviditas
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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin aviditās.
Pronunciation
Noun
aviditas (plural aviditas-aviditas, first-person possessive aviditasku, second-person possessive aviditasmu, third-person possessive aviditasnya)
- (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, 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): /aˈu̯i.di.taːs/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈvi.di.tas/,
Noun
aviditās f (genitive aviditātis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | aviditās | aviditātēs |
| genitive | aviditātis | aviditātum |
| dative | aviditātī | aviditātibus |
| accusative | aviditātem | aviditātēs |
| ablative | aviditāte | aviditātibus |
| vocative | aviditās | aviditātēs |
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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.