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cupiditate

cupiditate is a Latin form of cupiditas, meaning “desire, greed”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 251 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.2.1: Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix. Is M. Messala, [et P.] M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent:

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.187: … in re militari—cuius ne mentio quidem te praetore ulla facta est: an illa, qvandoqve tv nvlla vmqvam mihi in cvpiditate ac tvrpitvdine defvisti omnibvsqve in isdem flagitiis mecvm et in legatione et in praetvra et hic in Sicilia …

All forms of cupiditas (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.