Posted on September 17, 2005 at 22:44:14.
In Reply to: |Sadegh Hedayat, suicide and the recent discussions| posted by RN
Desire
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> Desire; of de- + siderare: of heavenly body
Interestingly enough, since related to 'consider' (L. considero), probably (the etymologists favourite word) borrowed from the practice of augury, meaning to stake out the boundaries of a templum (that is, a place specially marked out for ritual purposes ) by means of the stars.