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cupiens

cupiens is a Latin form of cupio, meaning “desire, long for”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 107 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.67: … aberat a novis Pompei castris circiter passus quingentos. Hanc legionem sperans Caesar se opprimere posse et cupiens eius diei detrimentum sarcire, reliquit in opere cohortes duas, quae speciem munitionis praeberet; ipse diver …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.10.20: Cupiens itaque augustissima omnium sede morari diutius imperator, ut otio puriore frueretur et voluptate, assiduis nu …

All forms of cupio (conjugation 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.