dēsīdĕrĭum (noun N) : desidero
* A longing, ardent desire or wish, properly for something once possessed; grief, regret for the absence or loss of any thing (for syn. cf.: optio, optatio, cupido, cupiditas, studium, appetitio, voluntas—freq. and class.).
* Prop.
* With gen. object.: te desiderium Athenarum cepisset,Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 13; cf.: me desiderium tenet urbis,Cic. Fam. 2, 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 22; and, locorum,Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 21: rerum earum,Lucr. 3, 901; cf. id. 3, 922; 918: esse in desiderio alicujus,Cic. Fam. 2, 12 fin.: desiderium conjunctissimi viri ferre,id. Lael. 27, 104: Scipionis desiderio moveri,id. ib. 3, 10: tam cari capitis,Hor. Od. 1, 24, 1: defuncti,Suet. Calig. 6 et saep.: desiderio id fieri tuo (for tui),Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 66; cf.: voluntas, in qua inest aliqua vis desiderii ad sanandum volnus injuriae,Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 14.
* Trop., of a person, as the object of longing: nunc desiderium, curaque non levis,Hor. Od. 1, 14, 18: desiderio meo nitenti, Catull. 2, 5; and as a term of endearment: mea lux, meum desiderium ... valete, mea desideria, valete,Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 2 fin.; Catull. 2, 5.
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* Want, need, necessity, in general (rare; not ante-Aug.): cibi potionisque desiderium naturale,Liv. 21, 4 et saep.: pro desiderio corporum,Plin. 11, 50, 111, § 264: desideria scabendi,id. 30, 14, 43, § 127 al.
* In the time of the empire, a request, petition on the part of inferiors: desideria militum ad Caesarem ferenda,Tac. A. 1, 19; 1, 26; Suet. Aug. 17; Plin. Pan. 79, 6; Dig. 1, 16, 9; 25, 3, 5.
* Desires, pleasures (late Lat.): servientibus desideriis et voluptatibus,Vulg. Tit. 3, 3: carnis,id. Ephes. 2, 3.

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