libido

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.

   Synonym: (vulgar) horniness

   Antonym: boredom

   Good grief man, control your libido!

   • 1991, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, in Nevermind, performed by Nirvana:

     A mulatto, an albino / A mosquito, my 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.

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

• nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪbɪdo]
• Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

libido n

1. libido

• libido in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• libido in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

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

libido

1. libido

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

• IPA^(key): /li.bi.do/

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libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)

1. sex drive, libido

• libidinal
• libidineux

• → Turkish: libido

• “libido”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

libido f (invariable)

1. (psychoanalysis) libido

• libidine

• bolidi

• lubīdō

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liˈbiː.doː/, [lʲɪˈbiːd̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈbi.do/, [liˈbiːd̪o]

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, De vita Caesarum 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.

Third-declension noun.

• libīdinōsus

• libet
• libīdinōsē
• libita

• “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
    

From Latin libīdō.

• IPA^(key): /liˈbi.dɔ/

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• Rhymes: -idɔ
• Syllabification: li‧bi‧do

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)

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

libido f (plural libidos)

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

From Latin libido or French libido.

libido n (uncountable)

1. sex drive, libido

From Latin libīdō.

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

lìbido m (Cyrillic spelling лѝбидо)

1. libido

• lȉbidinōzan

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlibido]

libido n (genitive singular libida, nominative plural libidá, genitive plural libíd, declension pattern of mesto)

1. libido

• libido in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

From Latin libīdō.

• IPA^(key): /líːbidɔ/

lȋbido m inan

1. libido

• libidinózen

From Latin libīdo.[1]

• IPA^(key): /liˈbido/ [liˈβ̞i.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: li‧bi‧do

• There is a certain tendency to pronounce libido as /ˈli.bi.do/ due to the influence of lívido, but this pronunciation is incorrect according to the Spanish orthography and thus not recommended.[2]

libido f (plural libidos)

1. libido, sex drive

• “libido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014