hungry Copy link Outline 1. ēsŭriens, ntis (usu. as part. = being h.)2. jējūnus (strictly, fasting)3. ăvĭdus cibi (positively eager after food) • hungry, hungered: 1. ēsŭriens, ntis (usu. as part. = being h.): to the h. man nothing comes amiss, nihil contemnit esuriens, Sen. (in Q.): the poor h. (half-starved) Greek, Graeculus e., Juv. 3, 78: v. preced. art. 2. jējūnus (strictly, fasting): the h. and weary frames of the Romans, j. fessaque corpora Romanorum, Liv. 21, 55, med.: a h. stomach is mostly content with homely fare, raro j. stomachus vulgaria temnit, Hor. S. 2, 2, 38. 3. ăvĭdus cibi (positively eager after food): Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 16: cf. Hor. S. 1, 4, 126. Phr.: to suffer from h., fame laborare, premi, urgeri (v. hunger, subs.): he used to eat whenever he felt h., vescebatur quocunque tempore stomachus desiderasset, Suet. Aug. 76: to quiet a h. stomach, latrantem stomachum lenire, Hor. S. 2, 2, 18: to wait till one is h. (before eating), famem opperiri, Sall. Cat. 13: to prevent one's feeling h., esuritionem depellere, Gell. 16, 3.