desejo
Meaning
-
desire
Frequency
Hyphenated as
de‧se‧jo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/deˈze.ʒu/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese desejo, from Early Medieval Latin dēsideus (“desire”), from Latin dēsidia (“sloth, debauchery”). Compare Galician desexo, Asturian deséu, Spanish deseo, and Aragonese deseyo.
New
desejar
- to wish
- (formal) to desire
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