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desideo
desideo
Latin
Verb
dēsideō (present infinitive dēsidēre, perfect active dēsēdī); second conjugation, no passive
- I remain or continue sitting.
- I sit idle or inactive, sit around, hang about.
- I go to defecate.
Inflection
- This verb has only limited passive conjugation; only third-person passive forms are attested in surviving sources.
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References
- desideo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- desideo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “desideo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.