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cupidine

cupidine is a Latin form of cupido, meaning “desire, longing; greed; (Cupido) Cupid”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 125 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.6: C. Claudius, cuius aedilitatem magnificentissimam 6 scimus fuisse, usus est hoc Cupidine tam diu dum forum dis immortalibus populoque Romano habuit ornatum, et, cum hospes esset Heiorum, Mamertini a …

Vergil, Aeneid 4.194: regnorum immemores turpique cupidine captos.

All forms of cupido (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.