appetent

See also: appétent and appètent

English

Etymology

Latin appetēns, present participle of appetō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæpətənt/

Adjective

appetent (comparative more appetent, superlative most appetent)

1. (archaic) eagerly desirous; greedy
   • 1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:

     knowing the Earle to be thirsty and Appetent after Glory and Renownie

   • 1915, Willa Sibert Cather, The Song of the Lark, Part 2/Chapter 5:

     During this first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had to find one's way. She felt no interest in the general briskness and zest of the crowds. The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.

Derived terms

• appetently
• inappetent

 

Related terms

• appetite
• appetition

Translations

eagerly desirous

• Portuguese: apetente

References

• “appetent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

appetent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of appetō