cupiditas

Latin

Alternative forms

• *cupiditia (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From cupidus (“desiring”) +‎ -itās (“ty”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈpi.di.taːs/, [kʊˈpɪd̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈpi.di.tas/, [kuˈpiːd̪it̪äs]

Noun

cupiditās f (genitive cupiditātis); third declension

1. desire
2. cupidity, avarice, greed

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cupiditās	cupiditātēs
genitive	cupiditātis	cupiditātum
dative	cupiditātī	cupiditātibus
accusative	cupiditātem	cupiditātēs
ablative	cupiditāte	cupiditātibus
vocative	cupiditās	cupiditātēs

Descendants

• Old French: cobetad
• Old Occitan: cobeitat
• → English: cupidity
• → French: cupidité
• → Italian: cupidità
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cupidietās

  Old French: coveitié

  ⇒ French: convoitise

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cupidĭtia

  ⇒ Catalan: cobdícia

  Old Galician-Portuguese: cobiiça

  Galician: cobiza

  Portuguese: cobiça

  Old Spanish: cubdicia

  Spanish: codicia

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cupiditas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 20: Autres langues, page 1552

Further reading

• “cupiditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cupiditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare
    
  • to kindle ambition in some one's mind: aliquem cupiditate honorum inflammare (or aliquem ad cupiditatem honorum inflammare)
    
  • love of truth: veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas
    
  • to be fired with desire of a thing: cupiditate alicuius rei accensum, inflammatum esse
    
  • to have an ardent longing for a thing: cupiditate alicuius rei ardere, flagrare
    
  • to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: cupiditatem alicuius accendere
    
  • to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: aliquem ad cupiditatem incitare
    
  • to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: aliquem cupiditate inflammare
    
  • to be blinded by passions: cupiditatibus occaecari (Fin. 1. 10. 33)
    
  • to be the slave of one's desires: cupiditatibus servire, pārēre
    
  • to overcome one's passions: imperare cupiditatibus
    
  • to overcome one's passions: coercere, cohibere, continere, domitas habere cupiditates
    
  • to bridle one's desires: refrenare cupiditates, libidines
    
  • unrestrained, unbridled lust: effrenatae cupiditates
    
  • unrestrained, unbridled lust: indomitae animi cupiditates
    
  • to satisfy one's desires: cupiditates explere, satiare
    
  • the passions have cooled down: cupiditates deferbuerunt (Cael. 18. 43)