desiderium

Latin

Etymology

From dēsīderō (“want, desire, wish for; miss, lack, need”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.siːˈdɛ.ri.ũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [de.s̬iˈdɛː.ri.um]

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).

	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

Descendants

Italian: desiderio, desidero, disiderio, disidero (archaic)
→ 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

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, 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^[1], 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