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Latin
Etymology
Derived from edō (“I eat”) + -āx (“inclined to”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
edāx (genitive edācis, comparative edācior, superlative edācissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective
- greedy, gluttonous, rapacious, voracious, consuming, devourer.
Alere nolunt hominem edacem.- They won't keep a greedy man.
Tempus edax rerum.- Time, the devourer of things.
- destructive
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
References
- “edax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “edax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- edax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a great eater: multi cibi esse, edacem esse