Latin

Noun

cupiditās f ‎(genitive cupiditātis); third declension

1. desire
2. cupidity, avarice, greed

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: cupidity
• French: cupidité
• Italian: cupidità
• Old Portuguese: cobiiça

  Galician: cobiza

  Portuguese: cobiça

• Spanish: codicia

References

• cupiditas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cupiditas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare
    
  • to kindle ambition in some one's mind: aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare)
    
  • love of truth: veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas
    
  • to be fired with desire of a thing: cupiditate alicuius rei accensum, inflammatum esse
    
  • to have an ardent longing for a thing: cupiditate alicuius rei ardere, flagrare
    
  • to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: cupiditatem alicuius accendere
    
  • to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: aliquem ad cupiditatem incitare
    
  • to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: aliquem cupiditate inflammare
    
  • to be blinded by passions: cupiditatibus occaecari (Fin. 1. 10. 33)
    
  • to be the slave of one's desires: cupiditatibus servire, pārēre
    
  • to overcome one's passions: imperare cupiditatibus
    
  • to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates
    
  • to bridle one's desires: refrenare cupiditates, libidines
    
  • unrestrained, unbridled lust: effrenatae cupiditates
    
  • unrestrained, unbridled lust: indomitae animi cupiditates
    
  • to satisfy one's desires: cupiditates explere, satiare
    
  • the passions have cooled down: cupiditates deferbuerunt (Cael. 18. 43)