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Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ziˈdɛ.ro/, (traditional) /de.siˈdɛ.ro/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛro
- Hyphenation: de‧si‧dè‧ro
Noun
desidero m (plural desideri)
- (archaic) Alternative form of desiderio
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈzi.de.ro/, (traditional) /deˈsi.de.ro/[2]
- Rhymes: -idero
- Hyphenation: de‧sì‧de‧ro
Verb
desidero
- first-person singular present indicative of desiderare
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From de- + sīder-, a morpheme perhaps related to sīdus (“star; constellation”) (compare cōnsīderō). Perhaps like "wish upon a shooting star."[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
dēsīderō (present infinitive dēsīderāre, perfect active dēsīderāvī, supine dēsīderātum); first conjugation
- to want, desire, wish for, long for
- Synonym: concupīscō
- to miss, lack, need
- to lose
- (passive voice) to be lost, to be missing
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “desidero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desidero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desidero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sīdus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 562