desejo

Meaning

Frequency

B1
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

  1. to wish
  2. (formal) to desire

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