desiderate

Etymology

From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/

Verb

desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)

1. (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
   • William Hurrell Mallock

     Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.

Verb

desiderate f pl

1. feminine plural of desiderato

Adjective

desiderate f pl

1. feminine plural of desiderato

Verb

desiderate

1. second-person plural present indicative of desiderare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of desiderare
3. second-person plural imperative of desiderare

Anagrams

• diseredate

Verb

dēsīderāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēsīderō

Participle

dēsīderāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēsīderātus

References

• desiderate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)