cupientis
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. pl. (m./f.)gen. 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;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- T
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tuos digitos decorat. nam hunc anulum ab tui cupienti huic detuli, hic porro. Pyrg. Quid nunc tibi..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...auxilio erat quisquam, et hinc Psyche acu comatoria cupienti mihi invocare Quiritum fidem malas pungebat, illinc puella penicillo..." - T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...avehit, vendit eum domino hic diviti quoidam seni, cupienti liberorum, osori mulierum. emit hospitalem is filium imprudens senex..."
