desidero

See also: desiderò

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.ziˈdɛ.ro/, (traditional) /de.siˈdɛ.ro/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɛro
  • Hyphenation: de‧si‧dè‧ro

Noun

desidero m (plural desideri)

  1. (archaic) alternative form of desiderio

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈzi.de.ro/, (traditional) /deˈsi.de.ro/[2]
  • Rhymes: -idero
  • Hyphenation: de‧sì‧de‧ro

Verb

desidero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of desiderare

References

  1. ^ desidero in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  2. ^ desidero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    From de- +‎ *sīder-, a morpheme perhaps related to sīdus (star; constellation) (compare cōnsīderō). Perhaps like "wish upon a shooting star."[1]

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    dēsīderō (present infinitive dēsīderāre, perfect active dēsīderāvī, supine dēsīderātum); first conjugation

    1. to want, desire, wish for, long for
      Synonym: concupīscō
      • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.10:
        Nimium diū tē imperātōrem tua illa Mānliāna castra dēsīderant.
        For too long now that “Manlian” camp of yours has been longing for you as its leader.
        (The plural desiderant agrees with the plural subject castra, understood here as singular. Cicero is using the dramatic device of personification to taunt Catiline, whose supporter Gaius Manlius commanded a rebel camp at Faesulae in Etruria.)
    2. to miss, lack, need
    3. to lose
    4. (passive voice) to be lost, to be missing

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    References

    • desidero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • desidero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • desidero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sīdus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 562