The corpus record — Latin

desiderabilis

desiderabilis · adj

desirable

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Where it lives

Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

dēsīdĕrābĭlis — Lewis & Short

dēsīdĕrābĭlis, e, adj.desidero,

I desirable (rare): desiderabilia (anteponantur) iis, quibus facile carere possis, Cic. Top. 18, 69; id. Fin. 1, 16, 53: velut suis vitiis, Liv. 24, 5: princeps, Tac. H. 2, 76: terra, Vulg. Psa. 105, 24; and in the Comp. Suet. Tib. 21.—Sup. does not occur.—* Adv., dēsī-dĕrābĭlĭter, with ardent desire: concupiscere, Aug. Ep. 143, 2.

Where it came from

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