cupido

• “Latin "cupido" started out as a near synonym of "cupiditas," but it came to stand for the personification of specifically carnal desire, the counterpart of Greek "eros"; this is the source of our familiar (and rather domesticated) Cupid.”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “Great Regulars: In Harrison County, Mo., a remnant of grassland supports a population of greater prairie chickens Tympanuchus cupido, a bird on the verge of extinction.”

  Archive 2009-05-01

• “Osage Plains prairie fragments, an important site for the prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), the richest and largest fragments of tallgrass prairie in this ecoregion - Missouri”

  Central forest-grasslands transition

• “Greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) are common on the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve.”

  Flint Hills tall grasslands

• “Feras mentes domat cupido, that fierce, cruel and rude Cyclops Polyphemus sighed, and shed many a salt tear for Galatea's sake.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Apuleius in Catel. nobis cupido velle dat, posse abnegat.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Ad utile sanitas refertur; utilium est ambitio, cupido desiderium potius quam amor excessus avaritia.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Ob inanes ditionum titulos, ob prereptum locum, ob interceptam mulierculam, vel quod e stultitia natum, vel e malitia, quod cupido dominandi, libido nocendi, &c.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Catullus says, “Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento —” What a memory mine is!”

  A Pair of Blue Eyes

• “Sed inter alia, ingens quædam cupido videndi Africam, et Asiam, vastioris orbis partes, eius animum inuaserat.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

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