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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēserō (“forsake, abandon”).
Participle
dēsertus (feminine dēserta, neuter dēsertum, comparative dēsertior, superlative dēsertissimus); first/second-declension participle
- deserted, abandoned, forsaken; having been deserted, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.562–563:
- “ subiit dēserta Creūsa,
et dīrepta domus, et parvī cāsūs Iūlī.”- “ the thought of Creusa having been forsaken, and my home laid waste, and the misfortune of little Iulus.”
(As Troy falls Aeneas fears for the safety of his own family.)
- (substantive in the plural) desert
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “desertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- deserts: loca deserta (opp. frequentia)
- (ambiguous) to be abandoned by good luck: a fortuna desertum, derelictum esse
Latvian
Noun
desertus m
- accusative plural of deserts