Fromdēsīderō(“want, desire, wish for; miss, lack, need”) +-ium.
dēsīderium n (genitivedēsīderiīordēsīderī);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 theplural)pleasures,desires
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
- “desiderium”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desiderium”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "desiderium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- desiderium inGaffiot, 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 stronglyflagrare, incensum esse)
- to be consumed with longing:desiderio exardescere
