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libido

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See also: Libido and libidó

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ləˈbi.doʊ/, /lɪˈ-/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

Noun

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

  1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
    Synonym: (vulgar) horniness
    Antonym: frigidity
    Good grief man, control your libido!
  2. (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
    Antonyms: destrudo, mortido
    Hypernym: drive
    For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world.
    The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.
  3. (astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Mandarin: 力比多 (lìbǐduō)
  • → Irish: libídeo
  • → Japanese: リビドー (ribidō)
  • → Korean: 리비도 (ribido)

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Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

  1. libido

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Czech

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido n

  1. libido

Declension

Declension of libido (hard neuter)
More information singular, plural ...

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Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlibido/, [ˈlibido̞]
  • Rhymes: -ibido
  • Syllabification(key): li‧bi‧do
  • Hyphenation(key): li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido

  1. libido

Declension

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More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)

  1. sex drive, libido

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Descendants

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Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

  1. libido

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Italian

Noun

libido f (invariable)

  1. (psychoanalysis) libido

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *luβēō (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”); see -īdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

libīdō f (genitive libīdinis); third declension

  1. desire, fancy, inclination, longing, pleasure, caprice, passion, wantonness
    Synonyms: cupīdō, studium, appetītiō, dēsīderium, appetītus, amor, impetus, ardor, inclīnātiō, prōpēnsiō, avāritia
    • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 3.1:
      Haec tibi est incīdenda lingua, quā vel ēvulsā spīritū ipsō libīdinem tuam lībertās mea refūtābit.
      (For that) you must sever this tongue of mine, and even if it is torn out, the freedom in my very breath will confound your wantonness.
  2. lust, sensuality
    Synonyms: amor, cupīdō
    Libīdō vincit omnia.
    Lust conquers everything.
    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 7:
      In prīmīs autem et illōs numerō quī nūllī reī nisi vīnō ac libīdinī vacant; nūllī enim turpius occupātī sunt.
      But among the worst I count also those who have time for nothing but wine and lust; for none have more shameful engrossments.
    • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars 3 44:
      Maiōre adhūc ac turpiōre īnfāmiā flagrāvit, vix ut referrī audīrīve, nēdum crēdī fās sit, quasi puerōs prīmae teneritūdinis, quōs pisciculōs vocābat, īnstitueret, ut natantī sibi inter femina versārentur ac lūderent linguā morsūque sēnsim adpetentēs; atque etiam quasi īnfantēs firmiōrēs, necdum tamen lacte dēpulsōs, inguinī ceu papillae admovēret, prōnior sānē ad id genus libīdinis et nātūrā et aetāte.
      He was excited with a greater and more shameful infamy, that hardly can be told or heard, by no means be believed to be allowed by the gods, like how he trained little boys of the tenderest age, which he called 'little fish', to go around between his thighs and rouse his senses with the tongue and by biting, while he was swimming; or even how he put stronger babies, not weaned yet, to his genitals as if to nipples, certainly more inclined to this kind of lechery by nature as well as by age.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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References

  • “libido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “libido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “libido”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge: iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant or ut u. libido sit or iracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
    • to be carried away by one's passions: libidine ferri
    • to abandon oneself (entirely) to debauchery: se (totum) libidinibus dedere
    • to bridle one's desires: refrenare cupiditates, libidines
    • to arouse some one's lust: libidinem alicuius excitare
    • the passions win the day: libido dominatur (Or. 65. 219)
    • the storm of passion has abated: libido consēdit
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Polish

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Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liˈbi.dɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -idɔ
  • Syllabification: li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido n (indeclinable)

  1. (common usage) libido (sexual urges or drives)
    Synonyms: popęd seksualny, pożądanie seksualne, chuć
  2. (psychoanalysis) libido (drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves)

Further reading

  • libido in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • libido in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • líbido

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido m or f (plural libidos)

  1. (psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)
  2. (psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin libido or French libido.

Noun

libido n (uncountable)

  1. sex drive, libido

Declension

More information singular only, indefinite ...

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǐbido/
  • Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

Noun

lìbido m inan (Cyrillic spelling лѝбидо)

  1. libido

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Slovak

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

libido n

  1. libido

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

  • “libido”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

lȋbido m inan

  1. libido

Declension

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