Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 472.cupiditās on page 472
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cupiditās desire
cupiditās is a Latin Noun that primarily means desire.
Definitions for cupiditās
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
desire, longing, passion, cupidity, avarice
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Passionate desire, longing, yearning. (b) (usu. pl.) an instance of this, a desire, longing.
- 2
Immoderate desire, lust, cupidity, greed. (b) an immoderate desire, passion.
- 3
(a) Desire for wealth, greed, avarice. (b) desire for power, ambition. (c) carnal desire, lust.
Sentences with cupiditās
Latin to English
Omnī cupiditāte pecūniae glōriaeque ex animō expulsā, ille dux sē vīcit.Compare When every desire for (lit., of) money and glory had been banished from his soul, that leader conquered himself.
Omnis cupiditās rērum malārum nōbīs vincenda est sī bonam vītam agere cupimus.Compare Every desire for evil things ought to be conquered by us (= we ought to conquer...) if we wish to lead a good life.
O miser et infelix dies! o falsus spes! o volucer fortuna! o caecus cupiditas! quam cito ille omnis praetereo!Compare O wretched and unhappy day! O false hope! O fleeting fortune! O blind ambition! how quickly have all those things passed away!
Cupiditas ex homine, cupido ex stulto numquam tollitur.Compare A man can be cured of his lust, but never a fool of his greed.
Declension table for cupiditās
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | cupiditās | cupiditātēs |
| Gen. | cupiditātis | cupiditātum |
| Dat. | cupiditātī | cupiditātibus |
| Acc. | cupiditātem | cupiditātēs |
| Abl. | cupiditāte | cupiditātibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 64.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 472.
- Word frequencies
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 125.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "cupiditās, cupiditātis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/cupiditas-cupiditatis.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 64.cupiditās, cupiditātis on page 64
