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lust

See also: Lust and lušť

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /lʌst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst
  • Audio (UK)(file)

NounEdit

lust (countable and uncountable, plural lusts)

  1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
    Seeing Leslie fills me with a passionate lust.
  2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
    The boarders hide their lust to go home.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
      For little lust had she to talk of ought.
    • 1608, Joseph Hall, “Epistle I. To Sr. Robert Darcy. The Estate of a True, but Weake Christian.”, in Epistles […], volume I, London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Samuel Macham & E[leazar] Edgar […], →OCLC, 2nd decade, page 108:
      [T]he vvorld thruſts it ſelfe betvvixt me and heauen; and, by his darke and indigeſted parts, eclipſeth that light vvhich ſhined to my ſoule. Novv, a ſenſeleſſe dulneſſe ouer-takes mee, and beſots mee; my luſt to deuotion is little, my ioy none at all: Gods face is hid, and I am troubled.
  3. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
    An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.
    • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
      Pompe, pryde, honour, ryches & worldly luſt
      Parrot ſayth playnly, ſhall tourne all to duſt
  4. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
      Trees will grow greater, and bear better fruit, if you put salt, or lees of wine, or blood, to the root: the cause may be the increasing the lust or spirit of the root.

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VerbEdit

lust (third-person singular simple present lusts, present participle lusting, simple past and past participle lusted)

  1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
    He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt.

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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch lust, from Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

NounEdit

lust m (plural lusten, diminutive lustje n)

  1. lust, desire (especially sexual, but also more generally)
  2. object of desire
  3. pleasure, joy
    Het was een lust om naar hem te kijken en te luisteren.
    It was a pleasure watching and listening to him.
  4. (usually in the plural) benefit, advantage
  5. a taste for, strong tendency to
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DescendantsEdit
  • Negerhollands: lyst

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

lust

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of lusten
  2. imperative of lusten

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Low German lust. Cognate to German Lust and Finnish lusti.

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lust (genitive lusti, partitive lusti)

  1. pleasure, fun, joy, lust (non-sexual)
    Nad teevad seda niisama lusti pärast.
    They're doing it just for fun.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of lust (type riik)
singular plural
nominative lust lustid
genitive lusti lustide
partitive lusti luste / lustisid
illative lusti / lustisse lustidesse / lustesse
inessive lustis lustides / lustes
elative lustist lustidest / lustest
allative lustile lustidele / lustele
adessive lustil lustidel / lustel
ablative lustilt lustidelt / lustelt
translative lustiks lustideks / lusteks
terminative lustini lustideni
essive lustina lustidena
abessive lustita lustideta
comitative lustiga lustidega

DescendantsEdit

  • → Ingrian: lusti (“beautiful, funny”)
  • → Votic: lusti (“beautiful”)

Middle DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

NounEdit

lust m or f

  1. enjoyment, pleasure
  2. lust, desire
  3. hunger, desire to eat

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Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

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lust m

  1. desire, pleasure, appetite, lust
    Him wæs metes micel lust ― he had a craving for food. (Ælfric's Homilies)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of lust (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative lust lustas
accusative lust lustas
genitive lustes lusta
dative luste lustum

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse losti (late Old Norse lyst), from Middle Low German lust lüst, lyst, from Old Saxon lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

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lust c

  1. (uncountable) lust (a mood of desire), joy, a keen interest
    jag har ingen lust att läsa idag
    I don't feel like reading today
  2. a desire (for something specific)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of lust 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lust lusten lustar lustarna
Genitive lusts lustens lustars lustarnas

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NounEdit

lust c (plural lusten)

  1. desire, appetite
  2. lust, sexual desire

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Further readingEdit

  • “lust”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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