I.v. intens. a. [id.], to desire, long for (a Plautinian word): “quae te amat tuamque expetessit pulcram pulcritudinem,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 13: cf. id. ib. 4, 6, 14: “artem,” id. Trin. 2, 1, 6; id. Rud. 1, 5, 1: “ultro amas, ultro expetessis,” Plaut. As. 3, 1, 23.
expĕtesso (-isso ), ĕre,