libido
English
/lɪˈbiː.dəʊ/
noun
Definitions
- (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
- (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
- (astronomy) in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (love, like, hold dear, break off, desire, cut off, care, peel, rind, break, damage).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*lewbʰ-
Gloss
love, like, hold dear, break off, desire, cut off, care, peel, rind, break, damage
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
好
Emoji
❤️ 🏩 👨❤️👨 👩❤️👨 👩❤️👩 👰♀️ 💋 💌 💑 💒 💓 💕 💖 💗 💘 💝 😍 😘 😚 😻 🤟 🤰 🤱 🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antilibido English
- delibidinization English
- libidinize English
- libidoless English
- love-hate English
- quodlibet English
- libidinosus Latin
- libīdō Latin
- Libido German
- libidine Italian
- либидо Russian
- любезный Russian
- λεπτός Ancient Greek
- *keh₂d- Proto-Indo-European
- *lewbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *lewp- Proto-Indo-European
- *lubʰeh₁(ye)- Proto-Indo-European
- *bakiz Proto-Germanic
- *galaubijaną Proto-Germanic
- *laubijaną Proto-Germanic
- *laubą Proto-Germanic
- *leubaz Proto-Germanic
- *lubją Proto-Germanic
- *lubą Proto-Germanic
- *lubō Proto-Germanic
- *lubōną Proto-Germanic
- *uzlaubijaną Proto-Germanic
- リビドー Japanese
- libido Polish
- lufian Old English
- लुभ् Sanskrit
- loven Middle English
- libídeo Irish
- leyfi Old Norse
- lofa Old Norse
- *ľubiti Proto-Slavic
- *ľuby Proto-Slavic
- *ľubъ Proto-Slavic
- *ľubь Proto-Slavic
- libido Serbo-Croatian
- آلفته Persian
- labë Albanian
- ליבידו Hebrew (modern)
- 力比多 Chinese
- *luβēt, *luβēō Proto-Italic
- libido Slovene
- *laubijā Frankish
- liaupsė Lithuanian