lascivious

English

Etymology

From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈsɪvɪəs/

Adjective

lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)

1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:

     The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

Synonyms

• wanton, lewd, lustful

Translations

wanton

• Albanian: epshor (sq)
• Arabic: فَاسِق‎‎ (fāsiq), دَاعِر‎‎ (dāʿir), شَهْوَانِيّ‎‎ (šahwāniyy), شَبِق‎‎ (šabiq), غَلِم‎‎ (ḡalim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 好色 (zh) (hàosè), 淫蕩 (zh), 淫荡 (zh) (yíndàng)

• Czech: lascivní
• Dutch: wellustig (nl)
• Finnish: epäsiveellinen, irstas (fi), hekumallinen, rietas, himokas (fi)
• French: lascif (fr), lubrique (fr)
• German: lüstern (de), lasziv (de)
• Greek: λάγνος (el) (lágnos), ασελγής (el) (aselgís)
• Hebrew: תַּאַוְתָנִי‎‎
• Irish: drúisiúil, áilíosach, macnasach, ainmhianach
• Italian: lascivo (it)
• Japanese: 嫌らしい (iyarashii), エッチ (ja) (etchi)
• Maori: tīweka

• Norwegian: lidderlig, vellystig
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: frywolny (pl), rozpustny (pl)
• Portuguese: lascivo (pt)
• Romanian: lasciv (ro)
• Russian: похотли́вый (ru) (poxotlívyj), развра́тный (ru) (razvrátnyj), блудли́вый (ru) (bludlívyj), распу́щенный (ru) (raspúščennyj), распу́тный (ru) (raspútnyj), сладостра́стный (ru) (sladostrástnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ласциван, похотљив

  Roman: lascivan (sh), pohotljiv (sh)

• Spanish: lascivo (es)
• Swedish: vällustig, liderlig (sv)
• Tagalog: hitad, malanya
• Turkish: şehvetli (tr)
• Ukrainian: хтивий (uk) (xtývyj)

See also

• lecherous

Anagrams

• laviscious