desiderante
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desidero, desiderare, desideravi, desideratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
desire/want, long/wish for, request, require/need; miss, lack; lose;; want to know; investigate/examine/discuss (L+S); raise the question;
abl. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →desiderans, desiderantis (gen.), desiderantior -or -us, desiderantissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
greatly desired or missed; (SUPER of absent/dead persons);
abl. sg. (all)
Examples
- L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...paucos ventres et bene institutos et nihil aliud desiderantes quam impleri: parvo fames constat, magno fastidium. Paupertas contenta..." - G
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...ceteros ab insidiatoribus Gai, cum quasi secretum eo desiderante turbam submoverent, in diaetam, cui nomen est Hermaeum, recesserat..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...legem, et robusti fere iuuenes nec hunc laborem desiderantes exemplum nostrum sequebantur. Nec tamen, etiam si quid noui..."
