libido
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)
- (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
- 1991, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, in Nevermind, performed by Nirvana:
- A mulatto, an albino / A mosquito, my libido
- (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- (astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido n
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- libido in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- libido in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido
Declension[edit]
Inflection of libido (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | libido | libidot | |
genitive | libidon | libidojen | |
partitive | libidoa | libidoja | |
illative | libidoon | libidoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | libido | libidot | |
accusative | nom. | libido | libidot |
gen. | libidon | ||
genitive | libidon | libidojen | |
partitive | libidoa | libidoja | |
inessive | libidossa | libidoissa | |
elative | libidosta | libidoista | |
illative | libidoon | libidoihin | |
adessive | libidolla | libidoilla | |
ablative | libidolta | libidoilta | |
allative | libidolle | libidoille | |
essive | libidona | libidoina | |
translative | libidoksi | libidoiksi | |
instructive | — | libidoin | |
abessive | libidotta | libidoitta | |
comitative | — | libidoineen |
Possessive forms of libido (type valo) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | libidoni | libidomme |
2nd person | libidosi | libidonne |
3rd person | libidonsa |
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Turkish: libido
Further reading[edit]
- “libido”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido f (invariable)
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Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *luβēō (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /liˈbiː.doː/, [lʲɪˈbiːd̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈbi.do/, [liˈbiːd̪o]
Noun[edit]
libīdō f (genitive libīdinis); third declension
- desire, fancy, inclination, longing, pleasure
- caprice, passion, wantonness
- 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 3.1:
- Haec tibi est incīdenda lingua, quā vel ēvulsā spīritū ipsō libīdinem tuam lībertās mea refūtābit.
- (For that) you must sever this tongue of mine, and even if it is torn out, the freedom in my very breath will confound your wantonness.
- Haec tibi est incīdenda lingua, quā vel ēvulsā spīritū ipsō libīdinem tuam lībertās mea refūtābit.
- lust, sensuality
- Libīdō vincit omnia.
- Lust fetters everything.
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 7:
- In prīmīs autem et illōs numerō quī nūllī reī nisi vīnō ac libīdinī vacant; nūllī enim turpius occupātī sunt.
- But among the worst I count also those who have time for nothing but wine and lust; for none have more shameful engrossments.
- In prīmīs autem et illōs numerō quī nūllī reī nisi vīnō ac libīdinī vacant; nūllī enim turpius occupātī sunt.
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 3.44:
- Maiōre adhūc ac turpiōre īnfāmiā flagrāvit, vix ut referrī audīrīve, nēdum crēdī fās sit, quasi puerōs prīmae teneritūdinis, quōs pisciculōs vocābat, īnstitueret, ut natantī sibi inter femina versārentur ac lūderent linguā morsūque sēnsim adpetentēs; atque etiam quasi īnfantēs firmiōrēs, necdum tamen lacte dēpulsōs, inguinī ceu papillae admovēret, prōnior sānē ad id genus libīdinis et nātūrā et aetāte.
- He was excited with a greater and more shameful infamy, that hardly can be told or heard, by no means be believed to be allowed by the gods, like how he trained little boys of the tenderest age, which he called 'little fish', to go around between his thighs and rouse his senses with the tongue and by biting, while he was swimming; or even how he put stronger babies, not weaned yet, to his genitals as if to nipples, certainly more inclined to this kind of lechery by nature as well as by age.
- Maiōre adhūc ac turpiōre īnfāmiā flagrāvit, vix ut referrī audīrīve, nēdum crēdī fās sit, quasi puerōs prīmae teneritūdinis, quōs pisciculōs vocābat, īnstitueret, ut natantī sibi inter femina versārentur ac lūderent linguā morsūque sēnsim adpetentēs; atque etiam quasi īnfantēs firmiōrēs, necdum tamen lacte dēpulsōs, inguinī ceu papillae admovēret, prōnior sānē ad id genus libīdinis et nātūrā et aetāte.
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | libīdō | libīdinēs |
Genitive | libīdinis | libīdinum |
Dative | libīdinī | libīdinibus |
Accusative | libīdinem | libīdinēs |
Ablative | libīdine | libīdinibus |
Vocative | libīdō | libīdinēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Armenian: լիբիդո (libido)
- → Catalan: libido
- → Dutch: libido
- → English: libido
- → Finnish: libido
- → French: libido
- → Turkish: libido
- → German: Libido
- → Hebrew: לִיבִּידוֹ (libido)
- → Hungarian: libidó
- → Italian: libido, libidine
- → Polish: libido
- → Portuguese: libido
- → Romanian: libido
- → Russian: либи́до (libído)
- → Serbo-Croatian: лѝбидо (lìbido)
- → Slovene: lȋbido
- → Spanish: libido
- → Swedish: libido
References[edit]
- “libido”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “libido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge: iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant or ut u. libido sit or iracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
- to be carried away by one's passions: libidine ferri
- to abandon oneself (entirely) to debauchery: se (totum) libidinibus dedere
- to bridle one's desires: refrenare cupiditates, libidines
- to arouse some one's lust: libidinem alicuius excitare
- the passions win the day: libido dominatur (Or. 65. 219)
- the storm of passion has abated: libido consēdit
- anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge: iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant or ut u. libido sit or iracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido n (indeclinable)
- (common usage) libido (sexual urges or drives)
- Synonyms: popęd seksualny, pożądanie seksualne, chuć
- (psychoanalysis) libido (drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves)
Further reading[edit]
- libido in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- libido in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido f (plural libidos)
- (psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)
- (psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin libido or French libido.
Noun[edit]
libido n (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) libido | libidoul |
genitive/dative | (unui) libido | libidoului |
vocative | libidoule |
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lìbido m (Cyrillic spelling лѝбидо)
Declension[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Slovak[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
libido n (genitive singular libida, nominative plural libidá, genitive plural libíd, declension pattern of mesto)
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- libido in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Slovene[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lȋbido m inan
Inflection[edit]
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | líbido | ||
gen. sing. | líbida | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | líbido | líbida | líbidi |
accusative | líbido | líbida | líbide |
genitive | líbida | líbidov | líbidov |
dative | líbidu | líbidoma | líbidom |
locative | líbidu | líbidih | líbidih |
instrumental | líbidom | líbidoma | líbidi |
Derived terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Usage notes[edit]
- There is a certain tendency to pronounce libido as /ˈli.bi.do/ due to the influence of lívido, but this pronunciation is incorrect according to the Spanish orthography and thus not recommended.[2]
Noun[edit]
libido f (plural libidos)
References[edit]
- ^ “libido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- ^ “libido” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, primera edición, Real Academia Española, 2005.
Further reading[edit]
- “libido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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