appetite
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English appetit, from Old French apetit (French appétit), from Latin appetitus, from appetere (“to strive after, long for”); ad + petere (“to seek”). See petition, and compare with appetence.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæpɪtaɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæpəˌtaɪt/
Audio (GA) (file) - Homophone: apatite (same as the GA pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: ap‧pe‧tite
NounEdit
appetite (countable and uncountable, plural appetites)
- Desire to eat food or consume drink.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of Black Peter:
- And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
- 1985, Susan Mullane, “Going for some gusto in the kitchen”, in National Fisherman[1], page 78:
- Though the breweries were forced to shut down, the dry spell did little more than whet the public's appetite for beer: Records show that within the first 24 hours after Congress lifted the ban [Prohibition] in 1933, Americans guzzled 1 million barrels of the stuff.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Biotics: Life as a Biotic Codex entry:
- Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of Black Peter:
- Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
- 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], OCLC 1179639832:
- If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 9, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvellous.
- The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
- appetite for reading
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):
- The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
desire of or relish for food
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any strong desire
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desire for personal gratification
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Further readingEdit
- appetite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- appetite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- appetite at OneLook Dictionary Search
ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
appetite
- inflection of appetire:
Etymology 2Edit
ParticipleEdit
appetite f pl
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
appetite