“want” in Latin

penuria (opposed to copia, usually with a genitive of the thing wanted): inopia (with a genitive, a being without what one requires; absolutely, poverty, need): egestas (absolutely, extreme need; rarely with a genitive = great deficiency in anything): desiderium (alicujus rei, a sensible want of a thing previously possessed): defectio: defectus (alicujus rei, failure of a thing; the former as an action, the latter as a state; ☞ not = imperfection, intellectual or moral): difficultas: angustiae (with a genitive, embarrassment, difficulty, anxiety from the want of a thing): vitium (defect, imperfection; intellectual or moral). Total want, omnium rerum inopia, difficultas; summae angustiae rerum necessariarum: want of money, pecuniae or argenti penuria; inopia argenti or argentaria; difficultas rei nummariae, or difficultas nummaria (general term); angustiae rei familiaris (in housekeeping): want of water, penuria aquarum; in the springs or streams, defectus aquarum circa rivos: want of strength, defectio virium: want of friends, penuria amicorum: want of proofs, facts, inopia argumentorum: want of moderation, intemperantia: to have a want, suffer from want of anything, aliqua re carere (general term, not to have); aliqua re egere, indigere (to be painfully sensible of the want); alicujus rei inopia laborare, premi; ab aliqua re laborare; aliqua re premi (to be oppressed by the want): anguste uti aliqua re (to be obliged to use a thing sparingly): there is great want of a thing, magna est alicujus rei penuria: to occasion great want, magnas difficultates afferre: to come to want, ad inopiam venire: to live in want, vitam inopem colere; in egestate esse or versari; vitam in egestate degere: in great want, omnium rerum inopem esse.

Transitively, egere aliqua re, seldom alicujus rei (to have want of, to require or have need of anything for any given purpose): indigere aliqua re or alicujus rei (to feel the want of anything. ☞ Observe that in egere the notion of the absence of an object prevails, and by indigere actual privation is expressed): carere (to be without a desirable possession; ☞ not = to want what is absolutely necessary; opposed to habere): opus or usus est aliqua re (the matter requires it, makes it necessary, circumstances make it imperative; instead of which, Col., 9, 2, 1, has opus habeo aliqua re): desiderare aliquid (to long for anything that one has not, not to like to be without it): requirere aliquid (to consider anything necessary or requisite). Not to want anything, aliqua re carere posse (i. e., to be able to do without it); or facile supersedere posse: what do we want to have many words about? quid opus est verbis? I want anything, opus or usus est mihi aliquid or aliqua re (☞ Vid: above on Col., 9, 1, 5): egeo or indigeo aliqua re (I want = should like to have it; Vid: above, the difference of SYN.): I do not want anything, aliqua re carere possum (= can do without); aliqua re supersedere possum (it can be dispensed with): I (we, etc.) want to, etc., to be rendered by opus est aliquid or aliqua re (alicui): usus est aliqua re (alicui), (the latter, however, seldom in prose); opus est (generally with infinitive, seldom with subjunctive); necesse est or oportet (with accusative and infinitive, or with subjunctive = it is necessary for me [you, etc.] to, etc.); est, quod or cur (there is a cause or call for anything; i. e., for me [you, etc.] to do so, or I consider it necessary, and thus I want to, etc.). I want to do anything, aliquid faciendum puto (consider it necessary to be done); necesse est me aliquid facere (must do it by all means). ☞ = to be wanting in anything, [Vid: To FAIL].

To wish, be desirous of [Vid: To DESIRE]. ☞ Velim, vellem, (I wish = should like) are used with this difference, that the present tense denotes rather a necessity for doing or having anything done, and the imperfect a condition on which the wish is established; both are used with following subjunctive (Zumpt, § 624; Krüger § 461, art. 1). I want (am desirous) neither... nor, ... neque... neque in animo est (Vid: Tac., Germ., 3, quite at the end). I want to know, to hear, etc., aveo or valde aveo scire, audire, etc.: I want so much more to learn, etc., multo magis aveo audire, etc.: to want very much to hare, etc., alicujus rei desiderio flagrare or cruciari: to want anybody to do, perform, etc., anything, contendere ab aliquo (with following ut, etc., or sollicitare aliquem ad aliquid, or with ut, etc.): I want anything (e.g., a sum of money) from anybody, aliquis debet mihi aliquid: go, if you want to go, ite, si itis: drink, if you want to drink, bibe, si bibis: do you want anything of me? num quid me vis? what is it you want? quid est quod me velis? I want to have it so, hoc ita fieri volo: I want to have this destroyed, hoc deletum esse volo: the matter wants or requires some management, *res poscit ut diligenter tractetur, or *res diligenter tractari vult: what does our father want? quid pater sibi vult? I want to go to Rome, Romam volo, cogito: where do you want to go to? quo pergis? if they want the old price of corn again, si annonam veterem volunt: what is it you want? quid velis?

To be wanting, suffer want, Intransitively, alicujus rei inopia laborare, premi, or simply ab aliqua re laborare: aliqua re premi (to be pressed or borne down by want): anguste uti aliqua re (to be stinted for, badly off for): magna inopia necessariarum rerum laborare (stronger term): vitam inopem colere; in egestate esse or versari; vitara in egestate degere; rerum inopem esse (stronger term); also, in summa mendicitate esse; mendicitatem perpeti: not to suffer anybody to want, victum alicui suppeditare; dare alicui unde utatur. Vid: WANTING.