cupidus

== Latin == === Etymology === From cupiō + -idus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊ.pɪ.dʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkuː.pi.dus] === Adjective === cupidus (feminine cupida, neuter cupidum, comparative cupidior, superlative cupidissimus); first/second-declension adjective eager, desirous, passionate, fond (+ genitive or + in ablative) Synonyms: dēsīderōsus, impiger, studiōsus, sēdulus, ācer, libēns, intentus, aspīrāns pacis cupidus ― peace lover greedy, covetous wanton, lecherous partial, biased, favoring ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== Old Catalan: cobeu Old Occitan: cobe ⇒ coubés ⇒ Provençal: coube, coubi → Old Catalan: cobés → French: cupide → Italian: cupido → Welsh: cybydd === References === Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cupidus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, pages 1552–1553 === Further reading === “cupidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cupidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.