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)
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative of desiderare
References
- ^ desidero in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- ^ 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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːˈsiː.dɛ.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [deˈs̬iː.de.ro]
Verb
dēsīderō (present infinitive dēsīderāre, perfect active dēsīderāvī, supine dēsīderātum); first conjugation
- 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.)
- For too long now that “Manlian” camp of yours has been longing for you as its leader.
- Nimium diū tē imperātōrem tua illa Mānliāna castra dēsīderant.
- to miss, lack, need
- to lose
- (passive voice) to be lost, to be missing
Conjugation
Conjugation of dēsīderō (first conjugation)
Related terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: desirur
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: deșidera
- Italian: desiderare, disiderare (archaic or obsolete)
- Old French: desirrer, desirer
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: desear
- Old Occitan: dezirar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: desejar
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: desear
- → Albanian: dëshiroj
- → Romanian: dezidera
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.
- ^ 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