appetitus

Latin

Alternative forms

• adpetītus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of appetō (“strive after, assail”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ap.peˈtiː.tus/, [äpːɛˈt̪iːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.peˈti.tus/, [äpːeˈt̪iːt̪us]

Noun

appetītus m (genitive appetītūs); fourth declension

1. an attack, assault

   Synonyms: impetus, concursus, invāsiō, assultus, aggressiō, oppugnātiō, incursus, occursĭo, petītiō, incursiō, vīs, ictus, procella

2. passionate desire or longing

   Synonyms: cupīdō, libīdō, studium, appetītiō, dēsīderium, impetus, calor, avāritia

3. the faculty of desire
4. passion, appetite

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	appetītus	appetītūs
genitive	appetītūs	appetītuum
dative	appetītuī	appetītibus
accusative	appetītum	appetītūs
ablative	appetītū	appetītibus
vocative	appetītus	appetītūs

Descendants

Romance descendants are probably all borrowed. In some non-Romance borrowings, it is unclear if they were borrowed directly from Latin or via French.

• → Alemannic German: Abedidd
• → Asturian: petite
• → Belarusian: апетыт (apjetyt)
• → Catalan: apetit
• → Dalmatian: apetiat
• → Estonian: apetiit
• → Old French: apetit (see there for further descendants)
• → Galician: apetito
• → Italian: appetito
• → Latvian: apetīte
• → Lithuanian: apetitas
• → Macedonian: апетит (apetit)
• → Norwegian: apetitt
• → Plautdietsch: Apetiet
• → Polish: apetyt
• → Russian: аппети́т (appetít)
• → Sassarese: appitìtu
• → Slovak: apetít
• → Slovene: apetit
• → Spanish: apetito
• → Swedish: aptit
• → Ukrainian: апетит (apetyt)

Related terms

• appetēns, adpetēns
• appetenter, adpetenter
• appetentia, adpetentia
• appetibilis, adpetibilis
• appetissō

• appetītio, adpetītio
• appetītīvus
• appetītor
• appetītrīx

Participle

appetītus (feminine appetīta, neuter appetītum); first/second-declension participle

1. desired, coveted having been longed for.
2. attacked, assaulted, having been assailed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	appetītus	appetīta	appetītum		appetītī	appetītae	appetīta
genitive	appetītī	appetītae	appetītī		appetītōrum	appetītārum	appetītōrum
dative	appetītō	appetītae	appetītō		appetītīs
accusative	appetītum	appetītam	appetītum		appetītōs	appetītās	appetīta
ablative	appetītō	appetītā	appetītō		appetītīs
vocative	appetīte	appetīta	appetītum		appetītī	appetītae	appetīta

Related terms

• appetentia
• appetītiō
• appetītōr
• appetō

References

• “appetitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “appetitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• appetitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.