appetite

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

desire: P. and V. ἐπιθυμία, ἡ.

appetite for food: P. and V. γαστήρ, ἡ.

hunger: P. πεῖνα, ἡ.

appetite for, desire for: P. and V. ἐπιθυμία, ἡ (gen.), πόθος, ὁ (gen.) (Plato but rare P.); see desire.

a slave to one's appetite: P. γαστρὸς ἥσσων (Xen.), V. νηδύος ἡσσημένος (Euripides, Fragment).

measuring happiness by appetite and base desires: τῇ γαστρὶ μετροῦντες καὶ τοῖς αἰσχίστοις τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν (Dem. 324).