concupiscent

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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)

  1. Amorous; lustful.
    • 1894Plato'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?
    • 1922, Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice Cream:
      Call the roller of big cigars, / The muscular one, and bid him whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
    • 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.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

concupiscent (feminine concupiscente, masculine plural concupiscents, feminine plural concupiscentes)

  1. concupiscent

Further reading

Latin

Verb

concupīscent

  1. 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)

  1. concupiscent

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite concupiscent concupiscentă concupiscenți concupiscente
definite concupiscentul concupiscenta concupiscenții concupiscentele
genitive-
dative
indefinite concupiscent concupiscente concupiscenți concupiscente
definite concupiscentului concupiscentei concupiscenților concupiscentelor