Word: desire

To desire may be, at the root, to long for what is as far off as a star — Latin de sidere, "from the stars," the mirror of consider: considering is the attention paid the night sky, desiring the wanting. It is a beautiful etymology nobody has proven (the dictionaries hedge it, Tucker called it "quite inapplicable," and sidus is unresolved), so the word is uncertain twice over — fitting, for the…