Third person singular present tense of 'evite': he/she/it avoids or shuns.
From the archaic Latin-derived verb 'evite,' with the '-s' suffix marking third person singular present tense in modern English. The underlying Latin 'evitare' has been mostly replaced by Romantic language descendants like Spanish 'evitar.'
This is grammar archaeology—you can trace how English conjugation works by seeing the '-s' attached to an obsolete Latin root. It's the kind of word that would have been completely normal in 1500s English but sounds foreign to modern ears.
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