desiderate

From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/

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desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)

1. (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
   • 1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:

     Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.

desiderate (comparative more desiderate, superlative most desiderate)

1. desired, wished or longed for
   • 1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London”, in Tales of Wonder:

     O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.

• IPA^(key): /de.zi.deˈra.te/, (traditional) /de.si.deˈra.te/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: de‧si‧de‧rà‧te

desiderate f pl

1. feminine plural of desiderato

desiderate f pl

1. feminine plural of desiderato

desiderate

1. inflection of desiderare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

• diseredate

dēsīderāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēsīderō

dēsīderāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēsīderātus

• "desiderate", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)