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English
Etymology
From Latin orexis (“longing; appetite”), from Ancient Greek ὄρεξις (órexis, “desire”), from ὀρέγω (orégō, “I reach, stretch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
orexis (plural orexes)
- (psychology) The affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act; desire, appetite.
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:A sweet orexis rising in his cock, a blush of fever mixing tickles in his balls, Adriaan slid his briefs off and began to lay out the makings for supper.
Related terms
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
orexis f (genitive orexis); third declension
- a longing
- an appetite
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- “orexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “orexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- orexis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- orexis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.