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6-letter words (1 found)

LIBIDO,

4-letter words (9 found)

BIDI,BOIL,BOLD,DIOL,IDOL,LIDO,LOBI,LOID,OLID,

3-letter words (14 found)

BID,BIO,BOD,BOI,DIB,DOB,DOL,LIB,LID,LOB,LOD,OBI,OIL,OLD,

2-letter words (11 found)

BI,BO,DI,DO,ID,IO,LI,LO,OB,OD,OI,

You can make 35 words from libido according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of libido

libido

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

Noun

libido (countable and uncountable, plural libidos)

  1. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
    Synonym: (vulgar) horniness
    Antonym: boredom
  2. (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
    Antonyms: destrudo, mortido
    Hypernym: drive
  3. (astronomy, archaic or misused, an occasional carry-over from astrology to astronomy) Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.

Related terms

  • libido dominandi

Descendants

  • → Mandarin: 力比多 (lìbǐduō)
  • → Irish: libídeo
  • → Japanese: リビドー (ribidō)
  • → Korean: 리비도 (ribido)

Translations

See also

  • nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [liˈβi.ðu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [liˈbi.ðo]

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

  1. libido

Related terms

  • libidinal
  • libidinós

Further reading

  • “libido”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪbɪdo]
  • Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido n

  1. libido

Declension

Further reading

  • libido in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • libido in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlibido/, [ˈlibido̞]
  • Rhymes: -ibido
  • Syllabification(key): li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido

  1. libido

Declension

Further reading

  • “libido”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.bi.do/

Noun

libido f (usually uncountable, plural libidos)

  1. sex drive, libido

Derived terms

  • libidinal
  • libidineux

Descendants

  • → Turkish: libido

Further reading

  • “libido”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

libido f (invariable)

  1. (psychoanalysis) libido

See also

  • libidine

Anagrams

  • bolidi

Latin

Alternative forms

  • lubīdō

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *luβēō (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /liˈbiː.doː/, [lʲɪˈbiːd̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈbi.do/, [liˈbiːd̪o]

Noun

libīdō f (genitive libīdinis); third declension

  1. desire, fancy, inclination, longing, pleasure, caprice, passion, wantonness
    Synonyms: cupīdō, studium, appetītiō, dēsīderium, appetītus, amor, impetus, ardor, inclīnātiō, prōpēnsiō, avāritia
  2. lust, sensuality
    Synonyms: amor, cupīdō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • libīdinōsus

Related terms

  • libet
  • libīdinōsē
  • libita

Descendants

References

  • “libido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “libido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • libido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liˈbi.dɔ/
  • Rhymes: -idɔ
  • Syllabification: li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido n (indeclinable)

  1. (common usage) libido (sexual urges or drives)
    Synonyms: popęd seksualny, pożądanie seksualne, chuć
  2. (psychoanalysis) libido (drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves)

Further reading

  • libido in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • libido in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

  1. (psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)
  2. (psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin libido or French libido.

Noun

libido n (uncountable)

  1. sex drive, libido

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǐbido/
  • Hyphenation: li‧bi‧do

Noun

lìbido m (Cyrillic spelling лѝбидо)

  1. libido

Declension

Related terms

  • lȉbidinōzan

Slovak

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlibidɔ]

Noun

libido n (genitive singular libida, nominative plural libidá, genitive plural libíd, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. libido

Declension

Further reading

  • “libido”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /líːbidɔ/

Noun

lȋbido m inan

  1. libido

Inflection

Derived terms

  • libidinózen

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin libīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liˈbido/ [liˈβ̞i.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ido
  • Syllabification: li‧bi‧do

Usage notes

  • There is a certain tendency to pronounce libido as /ˈli.bi.do/ due to the influence of lívido, but this pronunciation is incorrect according to the Spanish orthography and thus not recommended.

Noun

libido f (plural libidos)

  1. libido, sex drive

References

Further reading

  • “libido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English libido.

Noun

libido (n class, plural libido)

  1. libido
    Synonyms: ashiki, nyege

Swedish

Noun

libido c

  1. libido (sexual urges or drives)
    Synonym: könsdrift
  2. (psychology) libido

Declension

References

  • libido in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • libido in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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