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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of desperare (“to despair”), active infinitive of dēspērō (“I despair”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dēspērātus (feminine dēspērāta, neuter dēspērātum, comparative dēspērātior, superlative dēspērātissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- desperate, hopeless
- despairing
- reckless
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “desperatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desperatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desperatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- desperatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.