concupiscent

Etymology

From Latin concupiscens (stem concupiscent-), present participle of concupīscō (“long for, covet”), inchoative of concupiō (“long for”), from con- + cupiō (“desire, wish for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑːnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/, /kənˈkjuːpə.sənt/

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Adjective

concupiscent (comparative more concupiscent, superlative most concupiscent)

1. Amorous, lustful; feeling sexy.
   • 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's "The Emperor of Ice Cream"

     Call the roller of big cigars, / The muscular one, and bid him whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ky.pi.sɑ̃/

Adjective

concupiscent (feminine singular concupiscente, masculine plural concupiscents, feminine plural concupiscentes)

1. concupiscent

Further reading

• “concupiscent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Verb

concupiscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of concupiscō