libidinous

English

WOTD – 29 April 2006

Etymology

From Middle English libidinous, borrowed from Latin libīdinōsus.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /lɪˈbɪ.dɪ.nəs/

Adjective

libidinous (comparative more libidinous, superlative most libidinous)

1. Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):

     It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:

     Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity.

2. Of or relating to the libido.

Synonyms

• (having lustful desires): hot to trot, lascivious, lewd, licentious, lustful, wanton; See also Thesaurus:sexually aroused

Derived terms

• libidinously
• libidinousness
• unlibidinous

Related terms

• libido
• libidinism
• libidinist
• libidinosity

Translations

having lustful desires

• Arabic: شَهْوَانِيّ (šahwāniyy), شَبِق (šabiq), غَلِم (ḡalim)
• Bengali: কামাসক্ত (bn) (kamaśokto), কামুক (bn) (kamuk)
• Bulgarian: похотлив (bg) (pohotliv)
• Catalan: libidinós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淫蕩 / 淫荡 (zh) (yíndàng)

• Czech: libidózní
• Danish: liderlig
• Dutch: wellustig (nl)
• Finnish: himokas (fi)
• French: libidineux (fr)
• Galician: libidinoso
• German: lüstern (de), obszön (de)
• Greek: φιλήδονος (el) (filídonos), ασελγής (el) (aselgís), λιβιδινικός (el) (lividinikós)

  Ancient Greek: λάγνος (lágnos)

• Hebrew: היצריות
• Italian: libidinoso (it)
• Japanese: 嫌らしい (ja) (iyarashii), エッチ (ja) (etchi)
• Korean: 음탕한 (eumtanghan)
• Latin: libīdinōsus
• Lithuanian: geidulingas, gašlus
• Macedonian: сладостра́стен (sladostrásten), раскалашен (raskalašen)
• Māori: tūkari, whakatūkari
• Old English: gālfull, gālliċ
• Polish: napalony (pl)
• Portuguese: libidinoso (pt)
• Romanian: libidinos (ro)
• Russian: похотли́вый (ru) (poxotlívyj), сладостра́стный (ru) (sladostrástnyj), сластолюби́вый (ru) (slastoljubívyj)
• Spanish: libidinoso (es)