desideratio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin de-

Latin *sīder-

Latin dēsīderō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin dēsīderātiō

From dēsīderō (“to miss, desire”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.siː.dɛˈraː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [de.s̬i.deˈrat.t͡si.o]

Noun

dēsīderātiō f (genitive dēsīderātiōnis); third declension

1. desire, longing (for something), a feeling regret or the loss of
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.47:

     Crēdō, sed nē dēsīderātiō quidem; nihil autem est molestum, quod nōn dēsīderēs.

     So I believe, but [there is] not even [a sense of] longing; moreover, nothing can be bothersome which you do not desire.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēsīderātiō	dēsīderātiōnēs
genitive	dēsīderātiōnis	dēsīderātiōnum
dative	dēsīderātiōnī	dēsīderātiōnibus
accusative	dēsīderātiōnem	dēsīderātiōnēs
ablative	dēsīderātiōne	dēsīderātiōnibus
vocative	dēsīderātiō	dēsīderātiōnēs

References

• “desideratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “desideratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers