libido

From Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.

   Good grief man, control your libido!

2. (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.

   For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world.

   The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.

3. (astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

• horniness (vulgar)

• (common usage): boredom
• (psychology): destrudo

• nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator

Borrowed from Latin libīdō.

• IPA^(key): /li.bi.do/

libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)

1. libido

• libidinal

• “libido” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

libido f (invariable)

1. (psychoanalysis) libido

• libidine

• bolidi

• lubīdō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liˈbiː.doː/, [lɪˈbiː.doː]

libīdō f (genitive libīdinis); third declension

1. pleasure, inclination, fancy, longing
2. caprice, passion, wantonness
   • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 3.1:

     haec tibi est incidenda lingua, qua vel evulsa spiritu ipso libidinem tuam libertas mea refutabit.

     (For that) you must sever this tongue of mine, and even if it is torn out, the freedom in my very breath will confound your wantonness.

3. lust, sensuality

   Libido vincit omnia.

   Lust fetters everything.

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 7:

     In primis autem et illos numero qui nulli rei nisi vino ac libidini vacant; nulli enim turpius occupati sunt.

     But among the worst I count also those who have time for nothing but wine and lust; for none have more shameful engrossments.

Third declension.

• libīdinōsus

• libet
• libīdinōsē
• libita

• English: libido
• French: libido
• Italian: libido
• Russian: либи́до (libído)
• Spanish: libido

• libido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• libido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• libido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge: iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant or ut u. libido sit or iracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
    
  • to be carried away by one's passions: libidine ferri
    
  • to abandon oneself (entirely) to debauchery: se (totum) libidinibus dedere
    
  • to bridle one's desires: refrenare cupiditates, libidines
    
  • to arouse some one's lust: libidinem alicuius excitare
    
  • the passions win the day: libido dominatur (Or. 65. 219)
    
  • the storm of passion has abated: libido consēdit
    

libido f (plural libidos)

1. (psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)
2. (psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)

From Latin libīdō

• IPA^(key): /lǐbido/
• Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

lìbido m (Cyrillic spelling лѝбидо)

1. libido

• lȉbidinōzan

From Latin libīdō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlíːbidɔ/
• Tonal orthography: lȋbido

líbido m inan (genitive líbida, nominative plural líbidi)

1. libido

• libidinózen

• IPA^(key): /liˈbi.do/, /ˈli.bi.do/, [liˈβi.ðo], [ˈli.βi.ðo]

libido f (plural libidos)

1. libido, sex drive