desirus (1120-40)
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desirus (1120-40)

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[ FEW: 3,53b desiderare; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,342a desiros; TL: 2,1618 desirros; DEAF:  desirrer (desirros); DMF:  désireux; TLF:  désireux; OED:  desirous a.; MED:  desirous a.; DMLBS: 629c desideriosus ]
desiros,  desirous,  desirros,  desirrous,  desirrus;  disirous  

a.

1desirable: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Cum l’avoir de cest mond est a toz desirus!  3135
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  [...] la face Jesu Crist Qui tant est bele e [...] Sour toz deliz tant desirouse  13060
( s.xiii3/4; MS: c.1275 )  pain desirus ne gustai  613
estre desirus a, de
1 to be eager for, desirous of: 
( MS: 1120-40 )  Ainz quet vedisse, [sin] fui mult desirruse; Ainz que ned fusses, sin fui mult angussuse  456
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  les langueros Qu’erent de santé desirros  5082
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  A ceo k’om entent est son quer desirus  12
estre desirus de (+inf.)
1to be eager, keen to: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Desirrus erent de juster E desirrus d’armes porter  11959-60
( c.1185 )  Kar la pucele en ert de plus […] de lui amer desirose  9760
( 1304-05 )  seom desirrous de fere e procurer [...] son profit  4
tresdesirus 
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