desiderium
Latin
Etymology
From dēsīderō (“want, desire, wish for; miss, lack, need”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deː.siːˈde.ri.um/, [d̪eːs̠iːˈd̪ɛriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.siˈde.ri.um/, [d̪es̬iˈd̪ɛːrium]
Noun
dēsīderium n (genitive dēsīderiī or dēsīderī); second declension
- longing, desire, wish (especially for something once possessed)
- Synonyms: cupīdō, appetītus, studium, appetītiō, amor, ardor, libīdō, inclīnātiō, prōpēnsiō, avāritia
- grief, regret (desire for something lost)
- Synonyms: maeror, maestitia, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, aegritūdō, lūctus
- Antonym: lascīvia
- need, necessity
- Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, paupertās, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus
- Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia
- (in the plural) pleasures, desires
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēsīderium | dēsīderia |
| Genitive | dēsīderiī dēsīderī1 | dēsīderiōrum |
| Dative | dēsīderiō | dēsīderiīs |
| Accusative | dēsīderium | dēsīderia |
| Ablative | dēsīderiō | dēsīderiīs |
| Vocative | dēsīderium | dēsīderia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- dēsīderābilis
- dēsīderātiō
Descendants
- Italian: desiderio, desidero, disiderio, disidero
- → Albanian: dëshirë
- ⇒ Latin: Desiderius (given name)
- French: Didier, Dizier, Disdier, Désiré
- Italian: Desidero
- ⇒ Italian: Disdero (surname)
- Norman: Désiré
- ⇒ Latin: Desideria (feminine)
- French: Désirée
- English: Désirée, Desiree, Desirée
- German: Désirée, Desirée
- Swedish: Desirée, Desiré
- French: Désirée
References
- “desiderium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desiderium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desiderium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- desiderium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
- to be consumed with longing: desiderio exardescere
- to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)