appetitus

• adpetītus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ap.pɛˈtiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ap.peˈt̪iː.t̪us]

From appetō (“strive after, assail”) +‎ -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

appetītus m (genitive appetītūs); fourth declension

1. an attack, assault

   Synonyms: impetus, concursus, invāsiō, assultus, aggressiō, impressiō, oppugnātiō, incursus, occursĭo, petītiō, incursiō, vīs, ictus, procella

2. passionate desire or longing

   Synonyms: cupīdō, libīdō, studium, appetītiō, dēsīderium, amor, impetus, ardor, calor, avāritia

3. the faculty of desire
4. passion, appetite

Fourth-declension noun.

Romance descendants are probably all borrowed. In some non-Romance borrowings, it is unclear if they were borrowed directly from Latin or via French.

Perfect passive participle of appetō (“strive after, assail”).

appetītus (feminine appetīta, neuter appetītum); first/second-declension participle

1. desired, coveted having been longed for.
2. attacked, assaulted, having been assailed.

First/second-declension adjective.

• appetentia
• appetītiō
• appetītōr
• appetō

• “appetitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “appetitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “appetitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.