sitis

Latin > English

sitis sitis N F :: thirst

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

sĭtis: is (abl. site, Ven. Carm. 2, 13, 3; acc. sitem, Prud. στεφ. 2, 250), f. etym. dub.; perh. akin with siccus,
I thirst (class.; used only in sing.).
I Lit.: demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tenet, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 33; cf.: tibi cum fauces urit sitis, Hor. S. 1, 2, 114: siti sicca sum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 26: anum interfecero siti fameque atque algu, id. Most. 1, 3, 36; id. Rud. 2, 2, 7; cf.: cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: explere diuturnam sitim, id. Sen. 8, 26; cf.: ut sitim nostro possis explere cruore, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 57: ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora, excited, Verg. G. 3, 327: fessa labore sitim collegerat, had become thirsty, Ov. M. 5, 446: sitim tolerare, Tac. G. 4: exstinguere sitim, Ov. M. 7, 569: restinguere, Verg. E. 5, 47: pellere, Hor. C. 2, 2, 14; Stat. Th. 5, 1: finire, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 146: sedare, Lucr. 2, 663; 4, 850; 5, 945; Ov. M. 3, 415: famem ac sitim sedare, Plin. 11, 53, 119, § 284; Tac. H. 2, 49: levare, Ov. M. 12, 156; 15, 322: relevare, id. ib. 6, 354 al.: compescere, id. ib. 4, 102: deponere, id. ib. 4, 98: defendere fonte, Sil. 7, 170: avertere, id. 8, 572: reprimere, Curt. 7, 5, 7: pomi sitim faciunt, provoke, Plin. 23, 7, 70, § 135: sucus, qui sitim stimulet, id. 23, 7, 67, § 132: sitim adferunt (fici), id. 23, 7, 63, § 121: accendit, id. 11, 2, 1, § 3; Curt. 7, 5, 2: in lassitudine et in siti, Plin. 22, 24, 51, § 111: excessit sitim potio, was more than enough for, Cels. 1, 2: ardere siti, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 104: sitis arida guttur Urit, Ov. M. 11, 129.—
   B Transf., of things (places, plants, etc.), dryness, drought, aridity (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): et Canis arenti torreat arva siti, Tib. 1, 4, 42; Verg. G. 2, 353: deserta siti regio, id. A. 4, 42: haurit sitis ignea campos, Stat. Th. 4, 699: sitis aestatis restinguitur fontibus, i. e. of plants, Col. 11, 3, 9; Plin. 19, 2, 8, § 29 al.—
II Trop., strong or ardent desire, greediness, thirst: cupiditatis sitis, Cic. Par. 1, 1, 6.—With gen. obj.: libertatis, Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 66: cruoris, Ov. M. 13, 768: argenti sitis importuna famesque, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23: sitis major famae quam virtutis, Juv. 10, 140: audiendi, Quint. 6, 3, 19.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

sĭtis,⁹ is, f.,
1 soif : sitim depellere Cic. Fin. 1, 37 ; explere Cic. CM 26, chasser la soif, étancher sa soif ; quærere Cic. Phil. 5, 19, chercher à avoir soif || [poét.] = manque d’eau : Virg. G. 2, 353 ; Tib. 1, 4, 42 ; Plin. 19, 29
2 [fig.] a) cupiditatis sitis Cic. Par. 6, la soif, l’avidité du désir : b) libertatis Cic. Rep. 1, 66, la soif de la liberté, cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23 ; Juv. 10, 140 ; Quint. 6, 3, 19.

Latin > German (Georges)

sitis, is, Akk. im, Abl. ī, bei Spät. em u. e, f. (altind. kšiti-ḥ, Vergehen, Untergang, griech. φθίσις, Schwindsucht), der Durst, I) eig. u. übtr.: 1) eig.: arentibus siti faucibus, Liv.: sitim facere, Plin.: sitim colligere, D. bekommen, Ov., od. D. verursachen, Verg.: sitim explere, Cic., od. exstinguere, Ov., od. restinguere, Cic.: sitim sedare, Ov. u. Solin., sitim suam sedare, Val. Max.: cibo et potione famem sitimque depeliere, Cic.: cibus famem sedet, potio sitim exstinguat, Sen. – 2) übtr., Durst, der Pflanzen, der Erde usw., die Dürre, Trockenheit, große Hitze aestatis, Colum.: siti findit Canis arva, Verg.: deserta siti regio, Verg. – II) bildl., Durst, Heißhunger = heftige Begierde, heftiges, heißes Verlangen, cupiditatis, Cic.: argenti, Hor.: cruoris, Ov.: civilis sanguinis Syllana sitis, Sen. rhet.: sitis caedis, Mordlust, Spart.: alci facere sitim audiendi, Quint.: populi fauces exaruerunt libertatis siti, Cic.: velut ex diutina siti avide meram haurientes libertatem, Liv.

Translations

thirst

Afrikaans: dors; Albanian: etje, et; Amharic: ጥም; Arabic: عَطَش‎, ظَمَأ‎; Egyptian Arabic: عطش‎; Aragonese: set; Armenian: ծարավ, ծարավություն; Aromanian: seate; Assamese: পিয়াহ; Asturian: sede; Azerbaijani: susuzluq; Basque: egarria; Belarusian: прага, смага; Bengali: তৃষ্ণা, পিয়াস; Bikol Central: paha; Breton: sehed; Bulgarian: жажда; Burmese: အငတ်; Buryat: ангалга; Catalan: set; Cebuano: uhaw; Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴼⴰⴷ; Chechen: хьогалла; Cherokee: ᎣᏔᏕᎩᏍᎩ; Chichewa: ludzu; Chinese Mandarin: 口渴; Corsican: sete; Czech: žízeň; Dalmatian: sait; Danish: tørst; Dutch: dorst; Esperanto: soifo; Estonian: janu; Extremaduran: sedi; Faroese: tosti; Finnish: jano; French: soif; Friulian: sêt; Galician: sede; Georgian: წყურვილი; German: Durst; Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹; Greek: δίψα; Ancient Greek: αὐονά, αὐονή, αὐχμή, αὐχμός, δίψα, δίψη, δίψησις, δίψις, δίψος, διψοσύνη, τὸ διψῶδες; Greenlandic: imerusunneq; Gujarati: તરસ; Haitian Creole: swaf dlo; Hausa: ƙishi; Hawaiian: make wai; Hebrew: צָמָא‎, צימאון‎; Hiligaynon: uhaw; Hindi: प्यास, तृष्णा, पिपासा, तृषा, उदन्या; Hungarian: szomjúság, szomj; Icelandic: þorsti; Ido: dursto; Igbo: agu mmiṛi; Indonesian: haus; Ingush: хьогал; Interlingua: sete; Irish: tart, íota; Italian: sete; Japanese: 喉の渇き, 口渇, 渇, 渇き; Kannada: ಬಾಯಾರಿಕೆ; Kazakh: аңсау, шөл, шөлдеу, сусау; Khmer: សម្រេក; Korean: 목마름, 갈증(渴症); Kurdish Central Kurdish: تینو‎; Kyrgyz: суусоо; Latin: sitis; Latvian: slāpes; Lithuanian: troškulys; Livonian: jūomiznǟlga, viednǟlga; Lombard: set; Luganda: ennyonta; Luxembourgish: Duuscht; Macedonian: жед; Maguindanao: kawaw, waw; Malay: kehausan, kedahagaan; Malayalam: ദാഹം; Maltese: għatx; Manx: paays; Maranao: kawaw, waw; Marathi: तहान; Mongolian Cyrillic: цангаа; Nepali: तिर्खा; Norwegian Bokmål: tørste; Nynorsk: tørste; Occitan: set; Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic: жѧжда; Old East Slavic: жажа; Old Norse: þorsti; Oriya: ଶୋଷ, ତୃଷା; Paiwan: qusau; Pali: pipāsā; Papiamentu: set; Pashto: تشنک‎; Persian: تشنگی‎; Piedmontese: sè; Plautdietsch: Darscht; Polish: pragnienie; Portuguese: sede; Prakrit: 𑀇𑀡𑁆𑀳𑀸, 𑀉𑀤𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀸, 𑀉𑀤𑀦𑁆𑀦𑀸, 𑀢𑀡𑁆𑀳𑀸, 𑀢𑀺𑀲𑀸, 𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀸; Rajasthani: पिस; Romanian: sete; Romansch: said, set; Russian: жажда, смага; Sanskrit: तृष्णा; Sardinian: side, sidi; Scottish Gaelic: pathadh; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: же̑ђ, жеда; Roman: žȇđ, žeda; Sicilian: siti, siti; Slovak: smäd; Slovene: žeja; Somali: harraad; Spanish: sed; Swedish: törst; Tagalog: uhaw; Tajik: ташнагӣ; Tamil: தாகம்; Tausug: uhaw; Telugu: దాహం; Thai: ความกระหาย; Turkish: susuzluk; Turkmen: teşnelik; Ukrainian: спрага, жага, смага; Urdu: پیاس‎; Uyghur: تەشنالىق‎; Uzbek: chanqoqlik, tashnalik; Venetian: sée, sé, sef, sen; Vietnamese: khát; Volapük: soaf; Walloon: soe; Welsh: syched; West Frisian: toarst; Wolof: mahre; Xhosa: unxano; Yiddish: דאָרשט‎; Yoruba: oungbẹ; Zulu: ukoma; ǃXóõ: ǁʻân