cupido

Latin "cupido" started out as a near synonym of "cupiditas," but it came to stand for the personification of specifically carnal desire, the counterpart of Greek "eros"; this is the source of our familiar (and rather domesticated) Cupid.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day 2009

Great Regulars: In Harrison County, Mo., a remnant of grassland supports a population of greater prairie chickens Tympanuchus cupido, a bird on the verge of extinction.

Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) are common on the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve.

Flint Hills tall grasslands 2008

Osage Plains prairie fragments, an important site for the prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), the richest and largest fragments of tallgrass prairie in this ecoregion - Missouri

Central forest-grasslands transition 2008

Ob inanes ditionum titulos, ob prereptum locum, ob interceptam mulierculam, vel quod e stultitia natum, vel e malitia, quod cupido dominandi, libido nocendi, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Feras mentes domat cupido, that fierce, cruel and rude Cyclops Polyphemus sighed, and shed many a salt tear for Galatea's sake.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Apuleius in Catel. nobis cupido velle dat, posse abnegat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Ad utile sanitas refertur; utilium est ambitio, cupido desiderium potius quam amor excessus avaritia.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Catullus says, “Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento —” What a memory mine is!

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Sed inter alia, ingens quædam cupido videndi Africam, et Asiam, vastioris orbis partes, eius animum inuaserat.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004