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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• want (subs.):
      1. 1. pēnūria (a being without, a scarcity), mostly followed by a gen. of the thing needed: w. of food, penuria cibi, Lucr. 5, 1005: of water, aquarum, Sall. J. 17: of good citizens, civium bonorum, Cic. Brut. 1, 2: whether there be abundance or w. of money, copiane sit pecuniae an penuria, Cic. Inv. 2, 39, 115: absolutely, of want, scarcity: to support temporary w., p. temporum sustinere, Col. 9, 14, 17.
      2. 2. ĭnŏpia (resourcelessness, the opposite to opes or copia): w. of money, argenti inopia, Pl. Curc. 2, 3, 55: of corn, frumenti, Sall. J. 91: of remedy, remedii, Tac. A. 13, 57: to compare plenty with w., copias cum inopia conferre, Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24: to supply w., ferre opem inopiae, Pl. Rud. 3, 2, 3: to lessen w., inopiam lenire, Sall. J. 91: a time of w. and famine, inopia et fames, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50: to support w., i. tolerare, Sall. C. 37.
      3. 3. ĕgestas (extreme w.): poverty or rather extreme w. and beggary, paupertas vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Parad. 6, 1, 45: pressing w., urgens egestas, Virg. G. 1, 146: w. of food (starvation), e. cibi, Tac. A. 6, 23, init.: of pasturage, pabuli, Sall. J. 44.
      4. 4. dēfectus, ūs (want of what has been and is now gone, failure): w. of milk, d. lactis, Plin. 20, 23, 96.
      5. 5. dēfectio: w. of strength, virium, Cic. de Sen. 9, 29.
      6. 6. diffĭcultas (distressing, perplexing w.): w. of money, difficultas nummaria, Cic. Verr. 2, 28, 69: of corn, rei frumentariae, Caes. B. G. 7., 17.
      7. 7. angustiae, arum (straitened circumstances): w. of public money, angustiae pecuniae publicae, Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 4: w. of breath, a. spiritus, Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 181: to fall into w., decidere in angustias, Suet. Claud. 9.
      8. 8. dēsīdĕrium (a feeling of the w., generally of things lost, longing for): the natural w. of food and drink, cibi potionisque desiderium naturale, Liv. 21, 4, med.: v. desire. Phr.: to be in w., egēre: v. to want: to be oppressed by w., inopia affici, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 2: *inopia laborare, premi: to fall into w., in inopiam, difficultates, incidere, delabi, Cic.: in w.: inops, egenus, etc.: v. poor. The want of qualities may be expr. by neg. compds. w. of habit, insolentia: w. of experience, imperitia.
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• want (v.):
      1. 1. căreo, 2 (to be without, of something desirable): to w. a gift, carere munere, Virg. Aen. 5, 651: they w. a poet, carent vate, Hor. Od. 4, 9, 28: to w. the companionship of friends, carere consuetudine amicorum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 22, 63.
      2. 2. ĕgeo, 2 (to feel the w. of, to need for a given purpose): with abl. usually: importation of things which we w., invectio rerum quibus egemus, Cic. Off. 2, 3, 13: to w. eyes in order to see, oculis ad cernendum egere, id. N. D. 2, 57, 143: with gen.: you w. (have no) shame, pudoris eges. Pl. Am. 2, 2, 187: to w. help, e. auxilii, Caes. B. G. 6, 11: used absolutely: that I should be in wealth, she should w., me in divitiis esse, illam egere, Pl. Trin. 3, 2, 57.
      3. 3. indĭgeo, 2 (to be in sore w., generally stronger than egeo): I w. your advice, indigeo tui consilii, Cic. Att. 12, 35, fin.: my youth w.s their good opinion, mea adolescentia indiget illorum bona existimatione, id. Rosc. Com. 15, 44: to w. gold and silver, auri, argenti, indigere, id. Sull. 8, 25.
      4. 4. dēsīdĕro, 1 (to regret the absence of, to long for): I w. you, desideramus te, Cic. Fam. 16, 1, fin.: to w. (only) a sufficiency, desiderare quod satis est, Hor. Od. 3, 1, 25: v. to desire, to miss.
      5. 5. rĕquīro, īsīvi, tum, 3 (to think necessary to an end): I see not what the happy man w.s to make him happier, qui beatus est, non intelligo quid requirat ut sit beatior, Cic. Tusc. 5, 8, 23: great mental endowments are w.'d, magnae animi virtutes requiruntur, id. Manil. 22, 64.
      6. 6. vŏlo, lui, velle, 3 irr. (to wish for): come out; I w. you, exi te volo, Pl. Capt. 5, 2, 24: what does he w.? quid vult? Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 13: what do you w. me to do? quid vis faciam, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 24: you w. me to weep, vis me flere, Hor. A. P. 102: I w. you to defend me, tu velim nos defendas, Cic. Fam. 15, 3, extr.: v. to wish.
      7. 7. ăveo, 2 (to w. eagerly): I w. extremely to know, valde aveo scire, Cic. Att. 1, 15. Phr.: there w.s but little, paulum deest, abest, constr. with quin and conj., or with ad: there w.'d little to complete success, paulum defuit ad summam felicitatem, Caes. B. G. 6, 43: v. wanting: it w.s but an hour of noon, *meridies una tantum hora abest: things wanted, res necessariae: Cic.: Liv.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• WANT
1. s. penuria (opposed to copia, usually with a genitive of the thing wanted): inopia (with a genitive, a being without what one requires; absolutely, poverty, need): egestas (absolutely, extreme need; rarely with a genitive = great deficiency in anything): desiderium (alicujus rei, a sensible want of a thing previously possessed): defectio: defectus (alicujus rei, failure of a thing; the former as an action, the latter as a state; ☞ not = imperfection, intellectual or moral): difficultas: angustiae (with a genitive, embarrassment, difficulty, anxiety from the want of a thing): vitium (defect, imperfection; intellectual or moral). Total want, omnium rerum inopia, difficultas; summae angustiae rerum necessariarum: want of money, pecuniae or argenti penuria; inopia argenti or argentaria; difficultas rei nummariae, or difficultas nummaria (general term); angustiae rei familiaris (in housekeeping): want of water, penuria aquarum; in the springs or streams, defectus aquarum circa rivos: want of strength, defectio virium: want of friends, penuria amicorum: want of proofs, facts, inopia argumentorum: want of moderation, intemperantia: to have a want, suffer from want of anything, aliqua re carere (general term, not to have); aliqua re egere, indigere (to be painfully sensible of the want); alicujus rei inopia laborare, premi; ab aliqua re laborare; aliqua re premi (to be oppressed by the want): anguste uti aliqua re (to be obliged to use a thing sparingly): there is great want of a thing, magna est alicujus rei penuria: to occasion great want, magnas difficultates afferre: to come to want, ad inopiam venire: to live in want, vitam inopem colere; in egestate esse or versari; vitam in egestate degere: in great want, omnium rerum inopem esse.
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  • v. Transitively, egere aliqua re, seldom alicujus rei (to have want of, to require or have need of anything for any given purpose): indigere aliqua re or alicujus rei (to feel the want of anything. ☞ Observe that in egere the notion of the absence of an object prevails, and by indigere actual privation is expressed): carere (to be without a desirable possession; ☞ not = to want what is absolutely necessary; opposed to habere): opus or usus est aliqua re (the matter requires it, makes it necessary, circumstances make it imperative; instead of which, Col., 9, 2, 1, has opus habeo aliqua re): desiderare aliquid (to long for anything that one has not, not to like to be without it): requirere aliquid (to consider anything necessary or requisite). Not to want anything, aliqua re carere posse (i. e., to be able to do without it); or facile supersedere posse: what do we want to have many words about? quid opus est verbis? I want anything, opus or usus est mihi aliquid or aliqua re (☞ Vid: above on Col., 9, 1, 5): egeo or indigeo aliqua re (I want = should like to have it; Vid: above, the difference of SYN.): I do not want anything, aliqua re carere possum (= can do without); aliqua re supersedere possum (it can be dispensed with): I (we, etc.) want to, etc., to be rendered by opus est aliquid or aliqua re (alicui): usus est aliqua re (alicui), (the latter, however, seldom in prose); opus est (generally with infinitive, seldom with subjunctive); necesse est or oportet (with accusative and infinitive, or with subjunctive = it is necessary for me [you, etc.] to, etc.); est, quod or cur (there is a cause or call for anything; i. e., for me [you, etc.] to do so, or I consider it necessary, and thus I want to, etc.). I want to do anything, aliquid faciendum puto (consider it necessary to be done); necesse est me aliquid facere (must do it by all means). ☞ = to be wanting in anything, [Vid: To FAIL].
  • To wish, be desirous of [Vid: To DESIRE]. ☞ Velim, vellem, (I wish = should like) are used with this difference, that the present tense denotes rather a necessity for doing or having anything done, and the imperfect a condition on which the wish is established; both are used with following subjunctive (Zumpt, § 624; Krüger § 461, art. 1). I want (am desirous) neither... nor, ... neque... neque in animo est (Vid: Tac., Germ., 3, quite at the end). I want to know, to hear, etc., aveo or valde aveo scire, audire, etc.: I want so much more to learn, etc., multo magis aveo audire, etc.: to want very much to hare, etc., alicujus rei desiderio flagrare or cruciari: to want anybody to do, perform, etc., anything, contendere ab aliquo (with following ut, etc., or sollicitare aliquem ad aliquid, or with ut, etc.): I want anything (e.g., a sum of money) from anybody, aliquis debet mihi aliquid: go, if you want to go, ite, si itis: drink, if you want to drink, bibe, si bibis: do you want anything of me? num quid me vis? what is it you want? quid est quod me velis? I want to have it so, hoc ita fieri volo: I want to have this destroyed, hoc deletum esse volo: the matter wants or requires some management, *res poscit ut diligenter tractetur, or *res diligenter tractari vult: what does our father want? quid pater sibi vult? I want to go to Rome, Romam volo, cogito: where do you want to go to? quo pergis? if they want the old price of corn again, si annonam veterem volunt: what is it you want? quid velis?
  • To be wanting, suffer want, Intransitively, alicujus rei inopia laborare, premi, or simply ab aliqua re laborare: aliqua re premi (to be pressed or borne down by want): anguste uti aliqua re (to be stinted for, badly off for): magna inopia necessariarum rerum laborare (stronger term): vitam inopem colere; in egestate esse or versari; vitara in egestate degere; rerum inopem esse (stronger term); also, in summa mendicitate esse; mendicitatem perpeti: not to suffer anybody to want, victum alicui suppeditare; dare alicui unde utatur. Vid: WANTING.