desire

The story

1. Latin · derived fromdēsīderō“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”
2. Old French · derived fromdesirer
3. Middle English · inherited fromdesir
4. English todaydesire

From Middle English desir, desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider and desiderate. The verb, along with Old Norse derived want (verb), has mostly replaced native will in modern English.