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English
Etymology
From Latin concupiscens (stem concupiscent-), present participle of concupīscō (“long for, covet”), inchoative of concupiō (“long for”), from con- + cupiō (“desire, wish for”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
concupiscent (comparative more concupiscent, superlative most concupiscent)
- Amorous; lustful.
- 1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett
- Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?
1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:The rumors about Carnival 7NC’s are legion, one such rumor being that their Cruises are kind of like floating meat-market bars and that their ships bob with a conspicuous carnal squeakatasqueakata at night. There’s none of this kind of concupiscent behavior aboard the Nadir, I’m happy to say.
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
concupiscent (feminine concupiscente, masculine plural concupiscents, feminine plural concupiscentes)
- concupiscent
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Latin
Verb
concupīscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of concupīscō
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French concupiscent.
Adjective
concupiscent m or n (feminine singular concupiscentă, masculine plural concupiscenți, feminine and neuter plural concupiscente)
- concupiscent
Declension
Declension of concupiscent