different between appetite vs thirst

English

Etymology

From Middle English appetit, from Old French apetit (French appétit), from Latin appetitus, from appetere (“to strive after, long for”); ad + petere (“to seek”). See petition, and compare with appetence.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?æp.?.ta?t/
• Homophone: apatite

Noun

appetite (countable and uncountable, plural appetites)

1. Desire to eat food or consume drink.
   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of Black Peter:

     And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.
2. Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.

   • If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
3. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

   appetite for reading

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.

Synonyms

• craving, longing, desire, appetency, passion

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• appetite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• appetite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• appetite at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

appetite

1. second-person plural present indicative of appetire
2. second-person plural imperative of appetire

Participle

appetite

1. feminine plural of the past participle of appetire

Latin

Verb

appetite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of appet?

English

Etymology

From Middle English thirst, thurst, from Old English þurst, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).

Germanic cognates include Old High German thurst, Middle High German durst, German Durst, Old Saxon thurst, Old Dutch thursti, Middle Dutch dorst, dorste, Dutch dorst, Old Norse þorsti (Swedish törst, Icelandic þorsti, Danish tørst, Norwegian tørst). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek ???????? (térsomai), Albanian djersë (“sweat”), Sanskrit ?????? (t????, “desire; thirst”), Sanskrit ??????? (t???yati), Latin terra.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thûrst
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -??(?)st

Noun

thirst (countable and uncountable, plural thirsts)

1. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (such as fear, excitement, etc.) which spots the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane
2. The condition producing the sensation of thirst.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"

3. (figuratively) A want and eager desire (for something); a craving or longing.

   a thirst for gold

4. (slang) sexual lust

Synonyms

• (figuratively): craving, longing

Derived terms

• bloodthirst
• thirst-quenching
• thirsty

Translations

See also

• hunger

Verb

thirst (third-person singular simple present thirsts, present participle thirsting, simple past and past participle thirsted)

1. (intransitive) To be thirsty.

   • The people thirsted there for water.

2. (intransitive, usually followed by "for") To desire vehemently.

   • My soul thirsteth for […] the living God.

   • Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.

Translations

Further reading

• thirst in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• thirst in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• T-shirt, t-shirt, thrist