desejar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese desejar; from the noun desejo; cf. Latin dēsīderō, dēsīderāre (“long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”). Possibly corresponds to a Vulgar Latin verb *dēsidiāre, itself perhaps a crossing between Latin dēsīderāre and invidiāre, from invidia. Compare Spanish desear, Catalan desitjar. === Pronunciation === === Verb === desejar (first-person singular present desejo, first-person singular preterite desejei, past participle desejado) to wish (formal) to desire Synonyms: querer, apetecer, cobiçar, ambicionar, almejar ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== desejado desejável desejo desejoso === Further reading === “desejar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “desejar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026