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desiderari

desiderari is a Latin form of desidero, meaning “long for, miss”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.20.4: equitum vero operam neque in loco palustri desiderari debuisse et illic fuisse utilem, quo sint profecti.

Phaedrus, Fabulae 5.7.14: Desiderari coepit, cuius flatibus

All forms of desidero (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.