cupientem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cupiens, cupientis (gen.), cupientior -or -us, cupientissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Early
desirous, eager for, longing; anxious;
acc. sg. (m./f.) - 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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...alium in extrema senectute fatigatum iam et exire cupientem vix emittit; alio quidem atque alio tempore, omnes tamen..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...aliter nocere non possit, terras maria caelum ruere cupientem, infestam pariter inuisamque. 6. Vel, si uidetur, sit qualis..." - L
Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...aequo est, quique properantem impedit. Occidere est, uetare cupientem mori. Nec tamen in aequo est: alterum grauius reor..." - G
Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...haec, tum peculiari merito, quod praesidens certamini Neroneo cupientem inter citharoedos contendere nec quamvis flagitantibus cunctis promittere audentem..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...interfecit: Catilinam orbem terrae caede atque incendio vastare cupientem nos consules perferemus"? XIV. Hic et Catilina Graccho..." - M
X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...sepulcra perfudit, quo gemitu audientem forsitan et exire cupientem frustra vocavit animam! o natura crudelis, plus magum posse..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...confessa patri; nec motus et atro imperat (infandum!) cupientem occumbere leto. sero memor thalami maestae solacia morti, Phoebe..."- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quas regna uocat non uana uetustas. 590nominis antiqui cupientem noscere causascognita per multos docuit rudis incola patres. 'nondum..."
