suboptare

suboptare [CL sub-+optare], a to have a (slight) desire (for). b (w. inf.) to have a (slight) desire (to). a ergone plus aliquid fera gens facit atque relatis / plura furens homini flagra suboptat homo? L. Durh. Dial. II 366; si tamen interdum Pegasea vireta subopto / aut montem capitum tempto tenere duum Id. Hypog. 65. b hospitibus gratus sumptus moderare ~ans J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 1605.

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