desiderata
pronunciation
How to pronounce desiderata in British English:
UK [dɪˌzɪdə'reɪtə]
How to pronounce desiderata in American English:
US [dɪˌzɪdə'reɪtə]
Word Origin
- desiderata (n.)
- plural of desideratum (1650s), from Latin, literally "something for which desire is felt," from past participle stem of desiderare "to long for" (see desire (v.)).
Example
- 1. The report on the hospital mentioned such desiderata as a supply of clean laundry .
- 2. On the contrary , the previous decade was correctly judged to amount " to the realization of all major soviet military and diplomatic desiderata , " as american historian and diplomat stephen sestanovich has written .