cupiamus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cupio, cupere, cupivi, cupitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wish/long/be eager for; desire/want, covet; desire as a lover; favor, wish well;
pl. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Debemus itaque exerceri ne haec timeamus, ne illa cupiamus. In contrarium pugnemus et ab inuitantibus recedamus, aduersus petentiaconcitemur..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...induxit, ut te iterum interumque consulem habere cupiamus. Remissius istud contenderemus, si adhuc non sciremus, qualis esses futurus..."