desiderium

From dēsīderō (“want, desire, wish for; miss, lack, need”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deː.siːˈde.ri.um/, [deː.siːˈdɛ.ri.ũ]

dēsīderium n (genitive dēsīderiī); second declension

1. longing, desire, wish
2. grief, regret
3. need, necessity
4. (In plural) pleasures, desires

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• dēsīderābilis
• dēsīderātiō

• Italian: desiderio, desidero, disiderio, disidero
• → Albanian: dëshirë
• ⇒ Latin: Desiderius (given name)
  • French: Didier, Dizier, Disdier, Désiré
  • Italian: Desidero
    • ⇒ Italian: Disdero (surname)
  • Norman: Désiré
  • ⇒ Latin: Desideria (feminine)
    • French: Désirée
      • English: Désirée, Desiree, Desirée
      • German: Désirée, Desirée
      • Swedish: Desirée, Desiré

• desiderium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• desiderium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• desiderium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• desiderium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
    
  • to be consumed with longing: desiderio exardescere