different between desire vs gusto

English

Etymology

From Middle English desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin d?s?der? (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider. Compare also desiderate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/
• (General American) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/, /d??za??/, /di?za??/, /di?za??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Hyphenation: de?sire

Verb

desire (third-person singular simple present desires, present participle desiring, simple past and past participle desired)

1. To want; to wish for earnestly.
2. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII:

     And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
3. To want emotionally or sexually.

4. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
5. To require; to demand; to claim.
   • c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses

     A doleful case desires a doleful song.

6. To miss; to regret.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

desire (usually uncountable, plural desires)

1. (countable) Someone or something wished for.

2. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.

3. (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.

4. (uncountable) Motivation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (one or thing wished for): wanna, want-to; See also Thesaurus:desire
• (motivation): wanna, want-to

Translations

See also

• velleity

Related terms

• desirable
• desiring-production
• desirous

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• desier, eiders, eresid, redies, reside

Italian

Alternative forms

• desiro
• disire, disiro

Etymology

From Old Occitan dezire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?zi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: de?sì?re

Noun

desire m (plural desiri)

1. (poetic, archaic) desire

   Synonym: desiderio

Related terms

• desio
• desirare

References

• desire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Noun

desire

1. desire

Descendants

• English: desire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“tasting”). Doublet of cost.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gusto (uncountable)

1. Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
   • 1993, Paul Chadwick, The Dictator’s Dream, Dark Horse Books

     And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.

Translations

Anagrams

• gouts

Bikol Central

Verb

gusto

1. to want, to like

   Synonyms: muya, suno

Catalan

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of gustar

Esperanto

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??usto/
• Hyphenation: gus?to
• Rhymes: -usto

Noun

gusto (accusative singular guston, plural gustoj, accusative plural gustojn)

1. taste
2. flavor

Derived terms

• anta?gusto (“foretaste”)
• bongusta (“tasty”)
• gusta (“of or related to taste”)
• gusti (“to have a taste”)
• gustigi (“to taste like”)

Galician

Alternative forms

• gosto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gustus.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [??us?.t??]
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): [??us?.t??]

Noun

gusto m (plural gustos)

1. taste (sense)
2. taste (flavour)
3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
4. pleasure, enthusiasm
5. fancy, whim

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of gustar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gustus (“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. It was possibly a semi-learned borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??us.to/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: gù?sto

Noun

gusto m (plural gusti)

1. taste (the sense)
2. taste, flavour

   Synonym: sapore

3. gusto, enjoyment, relish
4. fancy, whim
5. (in the plural) preferences

Hypernyms

• cinque sensi

Derived terms

• gustare
• gustativo
• gustoso

Descendants

• ? Alemannic German: Gust
• ? English: gusto
• ? Serbo-Croatian: gušt

Verb

gusto

1. first-person singular present of gustare

Latin

Etymology

From unattested *gustus (tasted), from Proto-Indo-European *?ustós, from *?ews- (“to taste”). Cognate with gustus (“a taste”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??us.to?/, [???s?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??us.to/, [??ust??]

Verb

gust? (present infinitive gust?re, perfect active gust?v?, supine gust?tum); first conjugation

1. I taste, sample.
2. I snack; I whet my appetite.

Conjugation

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

• d?gust?
• gust?ti?
• praegust?
• regust?

Descendants

References

• gusto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gusto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 399

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ust?/

Adverb

gusto (comparative gus?ej, superlative nejgus?ej)

1. thickly, densely

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?û?sto/
• Hyphenation: gu?sto

Adverb

g?sto (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. densely

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gustus (“tasting”), from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. Replaced the inherited Old Spanish form gosto. The learned word has a more abstract meaning overall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??usto/, [??us.t?o]

Noun

gusto m (plural gustos)

1. taste (sense)

2. taste (flavour)
3. liking, preference, aesthetic preference
4. pleasure, enthusiasm

5. fancy, whim

Derived terms

Verb

gusto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of gustar.

References

• “gusto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish gusto.

Noun

gusto

1. want, like, desire

   Synonyms: kagustuhan, kursonada, nais, ibig

Verb

gusto

1. to want; like

   Synonyms: ibig, nais

Usage notes

• The verb gusto is considered as a pseudo-verb, which is a word that acts like a verb but has no affixes attached to it, and therefore does not conjugate. It is considered to be the more casual equivalent to nais and ibig.

Derived terms