different between libido vs passion

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 passioun, passion, from Old French passion (and in part from Old English passion), from Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb patior (“I suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hurt”), see also Old English f?ond (“devil, enemy”), Gothic ???????????????????? (faian, “to blame”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?sh'?n, IPA^(key): /?pæ??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): [?p?æ??n]
• Rhymes: -æ??n

Noun

passion (countable and uncountable, plural passions)

1. Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
2. Fervor, determination.
3. An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

4. Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

5. (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
6. A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
7. (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
8. (obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition

   Antonym: action
9. (obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
10. (obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.

11. (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

Synonyms

• (fervor, determination): ardor, fire in the belly, zeal

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

passion (third-person singular simple present passions, present participle passioning, simple past and past participle passioned)

1. (obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
   • she passioned
     To see herself escap'd from so sore ills

2. (transitive) To give a passionate character to.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “passion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Pasions, Spinosa, saposin

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s?ion/, [?p?s??io?n]
• Rhymes: -?s?ion
• Syllabification: pas?si?on

Noun

passion

1. Genitive singular form of passio.

French

Etymology

From Middle French passion, from Old French passion, borrowed from Latin passi?, ultimately from patior. Cognate with patience.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sj??/

Noun

passion f (plural passions)

1. (countable and uncountable) passion

Derived terms

• fruit de la passion

Related terms

• compassion
• pâtir

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

passion

1. Alternative form of passioun

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French passion.

Noun

passion f (plural passions)

1. passion

Descendants

• French: passion

Old English

Alternative forms

• passio

Etymology

From Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb pati (“suffer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s.si?un/

Noun

passion f (nominative plural passione)

1. passion of Christ

Descendants

• >? Middle English: passioun

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “passion”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “passion”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin passio, passionem.

Noun

passion f (oblique plural passions, nominative singular passion, nominative plural passions)

1. passion (suffering)
   1. (specifically, Christianity) the ordeal endured by Jesus in order to absolve humanity of sin

Descendants

• Middle French: passion
  • French: passion
• ? Middle English: passioun, pascioun, passion, passione, passioune, passiun, passyon, passyoun, passyun
  • English: passion, Passion
  • Scots: passion, patient

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (passion)
• passiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub