desideratio

dēsīderō (“to miss, desire”) +‎ -tiō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.siː.dɛˈraː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [de.s̬i.deˈrat.t͡si.o]

dēsīderātiō f (genitive dēsīderātiōnis); third declension

1. desire, longing (for something), a feeling regret or the loss of
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.47:

     Crēdō, sed nē dēsīderātiō quidem; nihil autem est molestum, quod nōn dēsīderēs.

     So I believe, but [there is] not even [a sense of] longing; moreover, nothing can be bothersome which you do not desire.

Third-declension noun.

• “desideratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “desideratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers