libito
Italian
Etymology
From Latin libitum, form of libet (“[it] is pleasing, agreeable”), from Proto-Italic *luβēt (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *lubʰeh₁(ye)- stative form of the root *lewbʰ- (“to love”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈli.bi.to/, [ˈl̺iːbit̪o]
- Stress: lìbito
- Hyphenation: li‧bi‧to
Noun
libito m (plural libiti)
- That which pleases.
- pleasure, desire, lust, volition
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto V, lines 55–57, page 75:
- A vizio di lussuria fu sì rotta, ¶ che libito fé licito in sua legge, ¶ per tòrre il biasmo in che era condotta.
- To sensual vices she [Semiramis] was so abandoned, ¶ that lust she made licit in her law, ¶ to remove the blame to which she had been led.
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