appetite
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English appetit, from Old French apetit (French appétit), from Latin appetitus, from appetere; ad + petere.
Pronunciation Nounappetite
- Desire to eat food or consume drink.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter:
- And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC ↗:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
- Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
- 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC ↗:
- If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 9, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC ↗:
- To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvellous.
- The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
- appetite for reading
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the page):
- The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
- French: appétit
- German: Appetit
- Italian: appetito
- Portuguese: apetite
- Russian: аппети́т
- Spanish: apetito, deseo, ganas
- Russian: жа́жда
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