appetentia

Latin

Alternative forms

• adpetentia

Etymology

From appetēns (“striving for”) +‎ -ia, present participle of appetō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ap.peˈten.ti.a/, [äpːɛˈt̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.peˈten.t͡si.a/, [äpːeˈt̪ɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

appetentia f (genitive appetentiae); first declension

1. a longing after something; appetite

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	appetentia	appetentiae
Genitive	appetentiae	appetentiārum
Dative	appetentiae	appetentiīs
Accusative	appetentiam	appetentiās
Ablative	appetentiā	appetentiīs
Vocative	appetentia	appetentiae

Related terms

• appetēns, adpetēns
• appetenter, adpetenter
• appetibilis, adpetibilis
• appetissō
• appetītio, adpetītio
• appetītīvus
• appetītor
• appetītrīx
• appetītus, adpetītus

Descendants

• → Catalan: apetència
• → French: appétence
• → Galician: apetencia
• → Italian: appetenza
• → Portuguese: apetência
• → Spanish: apetencia

Participle

appetentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of appetēns

References

• “appetentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “appetentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• appetentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.