See also: desiderò

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /de.ziˈdɛ.ro/, (traditional) /de.siˈdɛ.ro/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɛro
  • Hyphenation: de‧si‧dè‧ro

Noun

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desidero m (plural desideri)

  1. (archaic) alternative form of desiderio

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /deˈzi.de.ro/, (traditional) /deˈsi.de.ro/[2]
  • Rhymes: -idero
  • Hyphenation: de‧sì‧de‧ro

Verb

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desidero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of desiderare

References

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  1. ^ desidero in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  2. ^ desidero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From de- +‎ *sīder-, a morpheme perhaps related to sīdus (star; constellation) (compare cōnsīderō). Perhaps like "wish upon a shooting star."[1]

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    Verb

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    dēsīderō (present infinitive dēsīderāre, perfect active dēsīderāvī, supine dēsīderātum); first conjugation

    1. to want, desire, wish for, long for
      Synonym: concupīscō
      • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.10:
        Nimium diū tē imperātōrem tua illa Mānliāna castra dēsīderant.
        For too long now that “Manlian” camp of yours has been longing for you as its leader.
        (The plural desiderant agrees with the plural subject castra, understood here as singular. Cicero is using the dramatic device of personification to taunt Catiline, whose supporter Gaius Manlius commanded a rebel camp at Faesulae in Etruria.)
    2. to miss, lack, need
      • c. early 1st-century BCE, CIL 6.16606:[2]
        Mater mea mihi | monumentum | coeravit quae | me desiderat vehementer me
        My mother built this monument for me, whom she misses terribly
    3. to lose
    4. (passive voice) to be lost, to be missing

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    References

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    • 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.
    1. ^ 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
    2. ^ Warmington, E. H. (1940), Remains of Old Latin (Loeb Classical Library)‎[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 18