voracityの意味・使い方・発音

voracity

[vɔ'ræsəti]

voracity (n.): 1520s, from Middle French voracité (14c.) or directly from Latin voracitatem (nominative voracitas) "greediness, ravenousness," from vorax (genitive voracis) "greedy, ravenous, consuming," from vorare "to devour," from PIE *gwor-a-, from root *gwere- (4) "to swallow, devour" (cognates: Sanskrit girati "he swallows," garah "drink;" Greek bibroskein "to eat," brosis "eating;" Lithuanian geriu "to drink," gìrtas "drunk;" Old Church Slavonic ?iro "to swallow," gr?lo "gullet").

1. Their voracity is legendary and even the most hardened warriors cannot repress a shiver if one speaks about them.: 彼らの食いしん坊は伝説的で、強い戦士も彼らの話をすると震えを抑えることができない。

2.He ate with the voracity of a starving man.

餓鬼のように貪欲に食べている。

3.It 's a kind of social curiosity，an intellectual voracity .: これは社会に対する好奇心であり、知識上の貪欲な人である。