different between cupidity vs cupid

English

Etymology

From French cupidité, from Latin cupidit?s (“strong desire”), from cupidus (“keen, desirous”). Compare Cupid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kju??p?d?ti/

Noun

cupidity (countable and uncountable, plural cupidities)

1. Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the First, page 11 ?ISBN

     His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 784:

     It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.

Synonyms

• (extreme greed): avarice, covetousness; see also Thesaurus:greed

Related terms

• cupid

Translations

Anagrams

• pudicity

English

Etymology

From Cupid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?p?d/

Noun

cupid (plural cupids)

1. A putto carrying a bow and arrow, representing Cupid or love.
2. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Chilades, Cupido and Everes.

Translations

Anagrams

• pudic

Romanian

Etymology

From French cupide, from Latin cupidus.

Adjective

cupid m or n (feminine singular cupid?, masculine plural cupizi, feminine and neuter plural cupide)

1. greedy

Declension

Romansch

Noun

cupid m (plural cupids)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) nap

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) siesta, durmida
• (Sursilvan) tut
• (Sutsilvan) sien
• (Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta, cuc
• (Puter, Vallader) sönin
• (Vallader) sönet