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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French desir.
Noun
desir (plural desirs)
- desire (want, lust)
Middle French
Noun
desir m (plural desirs)
- desire (act, process of desiring)
Old French
Noun
desir oblique singular, m (oblique plural desirs, nominative singular desirs, nominative plural desir)
- desire (act, process of desiring)
Old Occitan
Noun
desir m (oblique plural desirs, nominative singular desirs, nominative plural desir)
- desire (act, process of desiring)
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from French désir.
Noun
desir (nominative plural desirs)
- desire
Declension
declension of desir
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only