orexis

== English == === Etymology === From Latin orexis (“longing; appetite”), from Ancient Greek ὄρεξις (órexis, “desire”), from ὀρέγω (orégō, “to reach, stretch”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈɹɛksɪs/ === Noun === orexis (plural orexes) (psychology) The affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act; desire, appetite. ==== Related terms ==== orectic orexigenic anorexigenic == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔˈrɛk.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [oˈrɛk.sis] === Noun === orexis f (genitive orexis); third declension a longing an appetite ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). === References === “orexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “orexis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "orexis", 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) “orexis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.