lust
要点強い欲望
意味
- (…に対する)強い欲望,渇望《+for(of)+名》
- 色欲,肉欲
- (…を)切望する,渇望する《+after(for)+名》
例文
Love is merely a lyrical way of referring to lust.
恋愛はただ性欲の詩的表現をうけたものである。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless.