concupiscent

English

Etymology

From Endrika:etyl (Concupiscens) (stem concupiscent-), present participle of (Concupisco), inchoative of (Concupio) < (Con-) + (Cupio).

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Mpamaritra anarana

1. Amorous, lustful; feeling sexy.
   • 1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett

     Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?

   • 1922 — Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice Cream"

     Call the roller of big cigars, / The muscular one, and bid him whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

Related terms

• concupiscence
• concupiscently
• concupiscible

Translations

amorous, lustful

Bulgarian: Endrika:t

Polish: Endrika:t+, Endrika:t+

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Latina

Bika matoanteny

concupiscent /konkupiskent/

1. mpanao fahatelo ploraly amin'ny endrika ho avy amin'ny endriky ny matoantenin'ny mpanao filazana manoro ny matoanteny concupiscō.