noun
pl. -·ta something needed and wanted
Origin of desideratum
L, neuter of desideratus: see desiderate
noun
The definition of a desideratum is a wish or desire.
An example of a desideratum is a woman's want to be a mother.
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noun
pl. de·sid·er·a·ta,Something considered necessary or highly desirable.
Origin of desideratum
Latin dēsīderātum from neuter past participle of dēsīderāre to desire ; see desire .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- The great desideratum in a seat on horseback is that it should be firm.
- Satisfactory lexicons of patristic Greek and Latin are still a desideratum: but assistance may be obtained in the study of the Greek fathers from Suicer's Thesaurus, the Lexicon of Byzantine Greek by E.
- It remained a desideratum to express by equations the motion of a particle of the fluid in any assigned direction.
- Delaunay, developed in his Theorie du mouvement de la lune (2 vols., 1860, 1867), because it contains a germ which may yet develop into the great desideratum of a general method in celestial mechanics.
- - The optical desideratum is uniformity of refractive index and dispersive power throughout the mass of the glass.
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