Meaning of libido | Babel Free
[lɪˈbiː.doː]Definitions
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desire, fancy, inclination, longing, pleasure, caprice, passion, wantonness declension-3
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lust, sensuality declension-3
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Examples
“Haec tibi est incīdenda lingua, quā vel ēvulsā spīritū ipsō libīdinem tuam lībertās mea refūtābit.”
(For that) you must sever this tongue of mine, and even if it is torn out, the freedom in my very breath will confound your wantonness.
“Libīdō vincit omnia.”
Lust conquers everything.
“In prīmīs autem et illōs numerō quī nūllī reī nisi vīnō ac libīdinī vacant; nūllī enim turpius occupātī sunt.”
But among the worst I count also those who have time for nothing but wine and lust; for none have more shameful engrossments.
“Maiōre adhūc ac turpiōre īnfāmiā flagrāvit, vix ut referrī audīrīve, nēdum crēdī fās sit, quasi puerōs prīmae teneritūdinis, quōs pisciculōs vocābat, īnstitueret, ut natantī sibi inter femina versārentur ac lūderent linguā morsūque sēnsim adpetentēs; atque etiam quasi īnfantēs firmiōrēs, necdum tamen lacte dēpulsōs, inguinī ceu papillae admovēret, prōnior sānē ad id genus libīdinis et nātūrā et aetāte.”
He was excited with a greater and more shameful infamy, that hardly can be told or heard, by no means be believed to be allowed by the gods, like how he trained little boys of the tenderest age, which he called 'little fish', to go around between his thighs and rouse his senses with the tongue and by biting, while he was swimming; or even how he put stronger babies, not weaned yet, to his genitals as if to nipples, certainly more inclined to this kind of lechery by nature as well as by age.
CEFR level
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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