appetere (to desire): cupere: concupiscere: cupidum, avidum esse alicujus rei (to desire anything violently): desiderare (to long after or for anything; especially what one misses): optare (to wish): expetere: affectare (to strive to get; to be hankering after; opposed to fugere: aspernari): gestire (to express a longing for anything by gestures, with infinitive): ardenter cupere aliquid: cupiditate alicujus rei ardere, flagrare; desiderio alicujus rei magno teneri; sitire aliquid; sitienter expetere aliquid (stronger terms; to thirst after anything): to covet or abhor, appetere aut fugere (refugere): I am coveting anything, concupisco: appeto (both with accusative and infinitive); alicujus rei desiderio capior: appetens sum alicujus rei; cupidus, avidus sum alicujus rei: to covet earnestly, omni cogitatione ferri ad aliquid: to lay one’s hands on a coveted possession, grassari in possessionem alicujus rei (Liv. 6, 5).