different between demand vs desideratum

English

Alternative forms

• demaund, demaunde (obsolete)

Etymology

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin d?mand?, d?mand?re.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??m??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??mænd/, /d??mænd/
• Rhymes: -??nd, -ænd
• Hyphenation: de?mand

Noun

demand (countable and uncountable, plural demands)

1. The desire to purchase goods and services.
2. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. A forceful claim for something.
4. A requirement.

5. An urgent request.

6. An order.
7. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.

Usage notes

One can also make demands on someone.

• See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.

Synonyms

• (a requirement): imposition

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

demand (third-person singular simple present demands, present participle demanding, simple past and past participle demanded)

1. To request forcefully.

2. To claim a right to something.

3. To ask forcefully for information.

4. To require of someone.

5. (law) To issue a summons to court.

Synonyms

• call for

• insist
• (ask strongly): frain

Translations

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin d?s?der?tum (“something that is desired”), neuter nominative singular of d?s?der?tus, the passive past participle of d?s?der?re (“to desire”), from d?s?der? (“to desire, want, wish for”), from de- (intensifying prefix) + possibly s?dus (“star; constellation”) though the connection is unclear. The English word is cognate with French desideratum, Spanish desiderátum.

The plural is derived from Latin d?s?der?ta.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??s?d?????t?m/, /-?z?-/, /-??e?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??s?d????t?m/, /-?z?-/, [-??m]
• Hyphenation: de?si?de?ra?tum

Noun

desideratum (plural desiderata)

1. Something that is wished for, or considered desirable, particularly when thought to be essential. [from mid 17th c.]

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• desiderata (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• desideratum at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Verb

d?s?der?tum

1. accusative supine of d?s?der?

Participle

d?s?der?tum

1. nominative neuter singular of d?s?der?tus
2. accusative masculine singular of d?s?der?tus
3. accusative neuter singular of d?s?der?tus
4. vocative neuter singular of d?s?der?tus

References

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