appetens: cupidus: studiosus: avidus: All with genitive (in post-Augustan historians, avidus also with in): to be desirous of doing anything, ardet animus ad aliquid faciendum (e.g., of revenging, ad ulciscendum): avere - gestire (with infinitive, SYN. in DESIRE, v.): to make anybody desirous, alicui cupiditatem dare or (stronger) injicere; aliquem in cupiditatem impellere; aliquem cupiditate incendere aliquem faciendi aliquid (e.g., imitandi) cupiditate incitare (Cic.): to become desirous, in alicujus rei cupiditatem incidere; injicitur mihi alicujus rei cupiditas: to become very desirous, ingens alicujus rei cupido me incendit; maxima alicujus rei cupido or libido me invadit.