English
Etymology
From Latin lascīviōsus lascīvia ( “ sportiveness, lustfulness ” ) .
Pronunciation
Adjective
lascivious (comparative more lascivious , superlative most lascivious )
Wanton ; lewd , driven by lust , lustful .
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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.
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Translations
wanton
Albanian: epshor (sq)
Arabic: فَاسِق ( fāsiq ) , دَاعِر ( dāʕir ) , شَهْوَانِيّ ( šahwāniyy ) , شَبِق ( šabiq ) , غَلِم ( ḡalim )
Bulgarian: похотлив (bg) ( pohotliv )
Catalan: lasciu (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 好色 (zh) ( hàosè ) , 淫蕩 ／ 淫荡 (zh) ( yíndàng ) , 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 )
Ancient: λάγνος ( lágnos ) , μάχλος ( mákhlos )
Hebrew: תַּאַוְתָנִי
Irish: drúisiúil áilíosach macnasach ainmhianach
Italian: lascivo (it)
Japanese: 嫌らしい ( iyarashii ) , エッチ (ja) ( etchi )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Latin: salax
Maori: tīweka
Norwegian: lidderlig vellystig
Persian: شهوتی (fa) ( šahvati )
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: хти́вий (uk) ( xtývyj )
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