cupienti
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;
abl. sg. (all)dat. sg. (all) - 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;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.dat. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tuos digitos decorat. nam hunc anulum ab tui cupienti huic detuli, hic porro. Pyrg. Quid nunc tibi..."Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...sumptus congestae pondera massae,sed non inpleuit cupientis omnia mentes.quidquid fodit Hiber, quidquid Tagus expulit auri, 755quod legit..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...490conqueror, in uentos inpendo uota fretumque.ne retine dubium cupientis ire per aequor:si bene nota mihi..."Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...superum protectus ab ira, uir ferus et Romam cupienti perdere fato sufficiens. idem pelago delatus iniquo hostilem..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...poenam ferebatur effugit. Nihil obstat erumpere et exire cupienti: in aperto nos natura custodit. Cui permittit necessitas..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ferre fortunam tuam. Oe. Certissima est regnare cupienti uia laudare modica et otium ac somnum loqui; ab inquieto..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...auxilio erat quisquam, et hinc Psyche acu comatoria cupienti mihi invocare Quiritum fidem malas pungebat, illinc puella penicillo..."Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...avehit, vendit eum domino hic diviti quoidam seni, cupienti liberorum, osori mulierum. emit hospitalem is filium imprudens senex..."
