different between libido vs desire

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d? (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??bi?.d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Noun

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.

   Synonym: (vulgar) horniness

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

   Antonyms: destrudo, mortido

   Hypernym: drive

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

Descendants

• ? Mandarin: ??? (lìb?du?)
• ? Irish: libídeo
• ? Japanese: ???? (ribid?)
• ? Korean: ??? (ribido)

Translations

See also

• nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?b?do]
• Hyphenation: li?bi?do

Noun

libido n

1. libido

Declension

Further reading

• libido in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• libido in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.bi.do/

Noun

libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)

1. libido

Derived terms

• libidinal

Descendants

• ? Turkish: libido

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

libido f (invariable)

1. (psychoanalysis) libido

See also

• libidine

Anagrams

• bolidi

Latin

Alternative forms

• lub?d?

Etymology

From Italic: *lu??? (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /li?bi?.do?/, [l??bi?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li?bi.do/, [li?bi?d??]

Noun

lib?d? f (genitive lib?dinis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lib?din?sus

Related terms

• libet
• lib?din?s?
• libita

Descendants

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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?i?b?i.d?/

Noun

libido n (indeclinable)

1. (common usage) libido (sexual urges or drives)

   Synonyms: pop?d seksualny, po??danie seksualne, chu?

2. (psychoanalysis) libido (drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves)

Further reading

• libido in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• libido in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin lib?d?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?bido/
• Hyphenation: li?bi?do

Noun

lìbido m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. libido

Declension

Related terms

• l?bidin?zan

Slovak

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?libido]

Noun

libido n (genitive singular libida, nominative plural libidá, genitive plural libíd, declension pattern of mesto)

1. libido

Declension

Further reading

• libido in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Latin lib?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lí?bid?/

Noun

l?bido m inan

1. libido

Inflection

Derived terms

• libidinózen

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lib?do.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?bido/, [li???i.ð?o]
• Rhymes: -iðo
• Hyphenation: li?bi?do

Usage notes

• There is a certain tendency to pronounce libido as /?li.bi.do/ due to the influence of lívido, but this pronunciation is incorrect according to the Spanish orthography and thus not recommended.

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

1. libido, sex drive

References

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