desiderare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an alteration of the older disiderare, from Latin dēsīderāre (to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret). Doublet of desirare, taken from Old Occitan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.zi.deˈra.re/, (traditional) /de.si.deˈra.re/[1]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: de‧si‧de‧rà‧re

Verb

desideràre (first-person singular present desìdero, first-person singular past historic desiderài, past participle desideràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to wish, to want, to like, to desire, to long
    Synonym: volere

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. desidero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /deː.siː.deˈraː.re/, [d̪eːs̠iːd̪ɛˈräːrɛ]

Verb

dēsīderāre

  1. inflection of dēsīderō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
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