different between libido vs stamina

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 Latin st?mina, plural of st?men.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?stæm?n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?stæm?n?/
• Rhymes: -æm?n?
• Hyphenation: stam?i?na

Noun

stamina (usually uncountable, plural staminas)

1. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

   He has a lot of stamina. I suppose that's why he can run for a long time.
2. (obsolete, uncountable, plural only) The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.

Translations

Noun

stamina

1. (rare) plural of stamen
   • 1790, William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-Garden Displayed, Volume 3, 2006 Gutenberg eBook edition,

     In the specimens we have examined, and which perhaps have been rendered luxuriant by culture, the number of stamina has been from twelve to sixteen; of styles, from six to eight; of flowers on the same stalk, from one to eight.

   • 1832 December 8, Spirit of Discovery, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Number 579, 2005 Gutenberg eBook edition,

     The gay flowers of the hibiscus tiliaceus, as well as the splendid huth or Barringtonia speciosa, covered with its beautiful flowers, the petals of which are white, and the edges of the stamina delicately tinged with pink, give to the trees when in full bloom a magnificent appearance; the hibiscus rosa-chinensis, or kowa of the natives also grows in luxuriance and beauty.

Anagrams

• Mantias, Satnami, Tasmina, amastin, animats, manatis, manitas

Afrikaans

Noun

stamina (uncountable)

1. stamina

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta?.mi.na/, [?s?t?ä?m?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.mi.na/, [?st???min?]

Noun

st?mina

1. nominative plural of st?men
2. accusative plural of st?men
3. vocative plural of st?men

References

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