FOND Copy link • FONDFoolish, Vid: Indulgent to excess, indulgens: perindulgens: nimis indulgens. Attached to, etc., deditus alicui or alicui rei: studiosus alicujus or alicujus rei: addictus alicui or alicui rei. (The words are found in this connection and order.) addictus et deditus: devotus alicui or alicui rei (stronger term). (The words are found in this connection and order.) deditus devotusque. To be fond of, amare aliquid (to like or love it); delectari or oblectari aliqua re (to delight in anything); aliqua re gaudere (to take great pleasure in anything): to be fond of anybody, alicujus amore captum esse; aliquem amare; aliquem amore amplecti; amorem erga aliquem habere; aliquem in amore habere; to be very fond of anybody, alicujus esse cupidissimum: to be fond of anything (i. e., of eating anything), aliquid appetere; alicujus rei appetentem, or cupidum, or avidum esse (to long for or lust after it): he was very fond of small fish, pisciculos minutos maxime appetebat: not to be fond of anything, aliquid spernere, aspernari (to despise anything; aspernari not used in the Golden Age): to be fond of strong drink, vino deditum esse: to be fond of pleasure, voluptatibus se dedere: to be excessively fond of music, penitus se dedere musicis (i. e., to devote one’s self entirely to it). Wanton, trifling, Vid.