concupiscent

English

WOTD – 13 February 2008

Etymology

From Latin concupiscens (stem concupiscent-), present participle of concupīscō (“long for, covet”), inchoative of concupiō (“long for”), from con- + cupiō (“desire, wish for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/
• IPA^(key): /kɑːnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/, /kənˈkjuːpə.sənt/

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Adjective

concupiscent (comparative more concupiscent, superlative most concupiscent)

1. Amorous; lustful.
   • 1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett

     Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?

   • 1922 — Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice Cream

     Call the roller of big cigars, / The muscular one, and bid him whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

   • 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

     The rumors about Carnival 7NC’s are legion, one such rumor being that their Cruises are kind of like floating meat-market bars and that their ships bob with a conspicuous carnal squeakatasqueakata at night. There’s none of this kind of concupiscent behavior aboard the Nadir, I’m happy to say.

Related terms

• concupiscence
• concupiscently
• concupiscible

Translations

amorous, lustful

• Bulgarian: похотлив (bg) (pohotliv)
• Czech: smyslý
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• German: wollüstig (de), lüstern (de)
• Polish: zmysłowy (pl), lubieżny (pl)
• Serbo-Croatian: pohotan (sh) m

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ky.pi.sɑ̃/

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Adjective

concupiscent (feminine concupiscente, masculine plural concupiscents, feminine plural concupiscentes)

1. concupiscent

Related terms

• concupiscence

Further reading

• “concupiscent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) concupīscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of concupīscō