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English
Etymology
From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).
Pronunciation
Verb
desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)
- (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
Translations
To long for, to feel the absence of
Adjective
desiderate (comparative more desiderate, superlative most desiderate)
- desired, wished or longed for
1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London”, in Tales of Wonder:O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.zi.deˈra.te/, (traditional) /de.si.deˈra.te/[1]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: de‧si‧de‧rà‧te
Etymology 1
Participle
desiderate f pl
- feminine plural of desiderato
Adjective
desiderate f pl
- feminine plural of desiderato
Etymology 2
Verb
desiderate
- inflection of desiderare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
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Anagrams
Latin
Verb
dēsīderāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of dēsīderō
Participle
dēsīderāte
- vocative masculine singular of dēsīderātus
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