desiderium

== Latin == === Etymology === From dēsīderō (“want, desire, wish for; miss, lack, need”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deː.siːˈdɛ.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [de.s̬iˈdɛː.ri.um] === Noun === dēsīderium n (genitive dēsīderiī or dēsīderī); second declension longing, desire, wish (especially for something once possessed) Synonyms: cupīdō, appetītus, studium, appetītiō, amor, ardor, libīdō, inclīnātiō, prōpēnsiō, avāritia grief, regret (desire for something lost) Synonyms: maeror, maestitia, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, aegritūdō, lūctus Antonym: lascīvia need, necessity Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, paupertās, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia (in the plural) pleasures, desires ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== dēsīderābilis dēsīderātiō ==== Descendants ==== Italian: desiderio, desidero, disiderio, disidero (archaic) → Albanian: dëshirë ⇒ Latin: Desiderius (given name) French: Didier, Dizier, Disdier, Désiré Italian: Desidero ⇒ Italian: Disdero (surname) Norman: Désiré ⇒ Latin: Desideria (feminine) French: DésiréeEnglish: Désirée, Desiree, DesiréeGerman: Désirée, DesiréeSwedish: Desirée, Desiré === References === “desiderium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “desiderium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "desiderium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “desiderium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.