Esurient
/ɪˈsjʊəriənt/noun
Hungry or having an appetite.
Did you know?Esurient comes from Latin esurire, “to be hungry,” a derivative of the ancient root that also produced the everyday English word “eat.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₁ed-
“to eat or consume”
Classical Latin
Latin
edere
“to eat”
Classical Latin
Latin
esurire
“to be hungry; literally, to be in a state of wanting to eat”
Late Latin
Latin
esuriens
“being hungry; hungering”
17th Century
English
esurient
“hungry or having an appetite”
Modern English
English
esurient
“hungry, especially in formal or literary usage”