A.“διψεῦσα” AP6.21; contr. 3sg. “διψῇ” Pi.N.3.6, Pl.Phlb.35b; inf. “διψῆν” Hdt.2.24, S.Fr.735, Ar.Nu.441, etc.: impf. 3sg. “ἐδίψη” Hp. Epid.3.1.β́,γ́ (διψᾷς, -ᾷ, -ᾶν only in later writers, APl.4.137 (Phil.), Pl.Ax.366a, LXXIs.29.8, Gal.5.837): fut. “-ήσω” X.Mem.2.1.17: aor. “ἐδίψησα” Pl.R.562c: pf. “δεδίψηκα” Hp.Cord.2, Plu.Pomp.73:—Med. (v. infr.):—thirst, στεῦτο δὲ διψάων [α_] Od.11.584, etc.; of the ground, to be thirsty, parched, Hdt.2.24; “δ. ὑπὸ καύματος” Alc.39.2; of trees, Thphr.CP3.22.5:—Med., “διψώμεθα” Hermipp.25.
2. metaph., δ. τινός thirst after a thing, Pi.N.3.6; “ἐλευθερίας” Pl.R.562c: later c. acc., “δ. Χῖον” Teles p.8 H.; “φόνον” APl.4.137 (Phil.); “δικαιοσύνην” Ev.Matt. 5.6; “αἷμα” J.BJ1.32.2; also “δ. πρὸς τὸν θεόν” LXXPs.41(42).2: c. dat., ὕδατι ib.Ex.17.3: c. inf., “διψῶ χαρίζεσθαι ὑμῖν” X.Cyr.5.1.1; “ἀκρατῶς ἐδίψη οἴνου πίνειν” Ael.VH2.41, etc.