appetentia

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νέῳ δὲ σιγᾶν μᾶλλον ἢ λαλεῖν πρέπει → it's fitting for a young man to keep silence rather than to speak (Menander)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

appĕtentĭa: (adp-), ae, f. appeto,
I a longing after something, appetite: adpetentia cibi, Plin. 19, 8, 38, § 127: liberalium artium, id. 23, 1, 22, § 38: gloriae, Aur. Vict. Epit. 15.—Without gen., desire, longing: libido effrenatam (efficit) adpetentiam, Cic. Tusc. 4, 7, 15.