Origin: Latin suffix -ous
Avaricious has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
"they are avaricious and will do anything for money"
"casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"
"a grasping old miser"
"grasping commercialism"
"greedy for money and power"
"grew richer and greedier"
"prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.