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Italian
Etymology
From an alteration of the older disiderare, from Latin dēsīderāre (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”). Doublet of desirare, taken from Old Occitan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.zi.deˈra.re/, (traditional) /de.si.deˈra.re/[1]
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: de‧si‧de‧rà‧re
- (Rome) IPA(key): /desið̞eˈɾä(ɾe)/
Verb
desideràre (first-person singular present desìdero, first-person singular past historic desiderài, past participle desideràto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to wish, to want, to like, to desire, to long
- Synonym: volere
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Latin
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deː.siː.deˈraː.re/,
Verb
dēsīderāre
- inflection of dēsīderō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative