appetitus

Latin

Alternative forms

adpetītus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of appetō (“strive after, assail”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ap.peˈtiː.tus/, [äpːɛˈt̪iːt̪ʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.peˈti.tus/, [äpːeˈt̪iːt̪us]

Noun

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an attack, assault
Synonyms: impetus, concursus, invāsiō, assultus, aggressiō, impressiō, oppugnātiō, incursus, occursĭo, petītiō, incursiō, vīs, ictus, procella
passionate desire or longing
Synonyms: cupīdō, libīdō, studium, appetītiō, dēsīderium, amor, impetus, ardor, calor, avāritia
the faculty of desire
passion, appetite

Declension

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Related terms

Descendants

Romance descendants are probably all borrowed. In some non-Romance borrowings, it is unclear if they were borrowed directly from Latin or via French.

→ Alemannic German: Abedidd
→ Asturian: petite
→ Belarusian: апетыт (apjetyt)
→ Catalan: apetit
→ Dalmatian: apetiat
→ Estonian: apetiit
→ Old French: apetit
- Middle French: appetit
  - French: appétit
    - → Bulgarian: апетит (apetit)
    - → Danish: appetit
    - → Norwegian: appetitt
    - → Portuguese: apetite
    - → Romanian: apetit
- → Middle Dutch: appetijt
  - Dutch: appetijt
    - Afrikaans: aptyt
    - → Sranan Tongo: apteiti
- → Middle English: appetit
  - English: appetite
  - Scots: appeteet
→ Galician: apetito
→ Italian: appetito
→ Latvian: apetīte
→ Lithuanian: apetitas
→ Macedonian: апетит (apetit)
→ Norwegian: apetitt
→ Plautdietsch: Apetiet
→ Polish: apetyt
→ Russian: аппети́т (appetít)
→ Sassarese: appitìtu
→ Slovak: apetít
→ Slovene: apetit
→ Spanish: apetito
→ Swedish: aptit
→ Ukrainian: апетит (apetyt)

Participle

appetītus (feminine appetīta, neuter appetītum); first/second-declension participle

desired, coveted having been longed for.
attacked, assaulted, having been assailed.

Declension

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Related terms

References

“appetitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“appetitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
appetitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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