concupiscent
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin concupiscens (stem concupiscent-), present participle of concupīscō (“long for, covet”), inchoative of concupiō (“long for”), from con- + cupiō (“desire, wish for”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /kɑːnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/, /kənˈkjuːpə.sənt/
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Adjective edit
concupiscent (comparative more concupiscent, superlative most concupiscent)
- Amorous; lustful.
- 1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett
- Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?
- 1922, Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice Cream:
- Call the roller of big cigars, / The muscular one, and bid him whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
- The rumors about Carnival 7NC’s are legion, one such rumor being that their Cruises are kind of like floating meat-market bars and that their ships bob with a conspicuous carnal squeakatasqueakata at night. There’s none of this kind of concupiscent behavior aboard the Nadir, I’m happy to say.
- 1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Translations edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
concupiscent (feminine concupiscente, masculine plural concupiscents, feminine plural concupiscentes)
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Further reading edit
- “concupiscent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
concupīscent
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French concupiscent.
Adjective edit
concupiscent m or n (feminine singular concupiscentă, masculine plural concupiscenți, feminine and neuter plural concupiscente)
Declension edit
Declension of concupiscent
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | concupiscent | concupiscentă | concupiscenți | concupiscente | ||
definite | concupiscentul | concupiscenta | concupiscenții | concupiscentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | concupiscent | concupiscente | concupiscenți | concupiscente | ||
definite | concupiscentului | concupiscentei | concupiscenților | concupiscentelor |