desiderate

English

Etymology

From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/

Verb

desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)

1. (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
   • 1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:

     Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.

Translations

To long for, to feel the absence of

• Bulgarian: желая (bg) (želaja), чувствам липсата на (čuvstvam lipsata na)
• Maori: mānakonako

Adjective

desiderate (comparative more desiderate, superlative most desiderate)

1. desired, wished or longed for
   • 1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London”, in Tales of Wonder:

     O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.zi.deˈra.te/, (traditional) /de.si.deˈra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: de‧si‧de‧rà‧te

Etymology 1

Participle

desiderate f pl

1. feminine plural of desiderato

Adjective

desiderate f pl

1. feminine plural of desiderato

Etymology 2

Verb

desiderate

1. inflection of desiderare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• diseredate

Latin

Verb

dēsīderāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēsīderō

Participle

dēsīderāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēsīderātus

References

• desiderate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)