libido

Etymology

From Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

Noun

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.

   Good grief man, control your libido!

2. (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.

   For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world.

   The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.

3. (astronomy) (archaic; misused; an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) occasionally misused in place of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.bi.do/

Noun

libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)

1. libido

Further reading

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

Noun

libido f (invariable)

1. (psychoanalysis) libido

See also

• libidine

Anagrams

• bolidi

Alternative forms

• lubīdō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liˈbiː.doː/, [lɪˈbiː.doː]

Noun

libīdō f (genitive libīdinis); third declension

1. pleasure, inclination, fancy, longing
2. caprice, passion, wantonness
3. lust, sensuality

   Libido vincit omnia.

   Lust fetters everything.

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 7

     In primis autem et illos numero qui nulli rei nisi vino ac libidini vacant; nulli enim turpius occupati sunt.

     But among the worst I count also those who have time for nothing but wine and lust; for none have more shameful engrossments.

References

• libido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• libido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• libido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge: iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant or ut u. libido sit or iracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
    
  • to be carried away by one's passions: libidine ferri
    
  • to abandon oneself (entirely) to debauchery: se (totum) libidinibus dedere
    
  • to bridle one's desires: refrenare cupiditates, libidines
    
  • to arouse some one's lust: libidinem alicuius excitare
    
  • the passions win the day: libido dominatur (Or. 65. 219)
    
  • the storm of passion has abated: libido consēdit
    

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

1. (psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)
2. (psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)

Etymology

From Latin libīdō

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǐbido/
• Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

Noun

lìbido m (Cyrillic spelling лѝбидо)

1. libido

Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlíːbidɔ/
• Tonal orthography: lȋbido

Noun

líbido m inan (genitive líbida, nominative plural líbidi)

1. libido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ˈbi.do/, [li.ˈβi.ðo]

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

1. libido, sex drive