concupisco

Forms

concupīscō (present infinitive concupīscere, perfect active concupīvī or concupiī, supine concupītum); third conjugation^[1] The perfect is concupīvī or concupiī.^[2][3] Late writers also have a deponent concupīscor.^[4]

Etymology

It is the inchoative of ⟨*concupiō⟩, formed with -scō: con- with cupiō (“to desire”).^[2][3][1] De Vaan traces cupiō to Proto-Italic *kup-i- and Proto-Indo-European *kup- (“to tremble, desire”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Lucilius.^[5]

Semantic evolution

Concupīscō is to conceive a strong desire for something, to long for, covet, used in prose and poetry, and to aspire or strive after a thing.^[2][3][1]

Church Latin glosses it “be desirous of, covet, long for”.^[6] The noun concupīscentia is derived from it.^[1]

Timeline

• c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it.^[5][7]

Meanings

Verb

1. To desire ardently, long for, covet.^[2][3][1][6]
2. To aspire to, strive after.^[3]

Word family

• concupīscentia
• concupiscentiuus
• concupīscibilis
• concupitor

Related words

• cupiō
• cupīdō
• cupiditās

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ a b c de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
7. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de