cupiditas
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From cupīdō (“desire, longing, lust”) + -itās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kuˈpi.di.taːs/, [kʊˈpɪd̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈpi.di.tas/, [kuˈpiːd̪it̪äs]
Noun
cupiditās f (genitive cupiditātis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cupiditās | cupiditātēs |
Genitive | cupiditātis | cupiditātum |
Dative | cupiditātī | cupiditātibus |
Accusative | cupiditātem | cupiditātēs |
Ablative | cupiditāte | cupiditātibus |
Vocative | cupiditās | cupiditātēs |
Descendants
References
- “cupiditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cupiditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare
- to kindle ambition in some one's mind: aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare)
- love of truth: veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas
- to be fired with desire of a thing: cupiditate alicuius rei accensum, inflammatum esse
- to have an ardent longing for a thing: cupiditate alicuius rei ardere, flagrare
- to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: cupiditatem alicuius accendere
- to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: aliquem ad cupiditatem incitare
- to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: aliquem cupiditate inflammare
- to be blinded by passions: cupiditatibus occaecari (Fin. 1. 10. 33)
- to be the slave of one's desires: cupiditatibus servire, pārēre
- to overcome one's passions: imperare cupiditatibus
- to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates
- to bridle one's desires: refrenare cupiditates, libidines
- unrestrained, unbridled lust: effrenatae cupiditates
- unrestrained, unbridled lust: indomitae animi cupiditates
- to satisfy one's desires: cupiditates explere, satiare
- the passions have cooled down: cupiditates deferbuerunt (Cael. 18. 43)
- to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare