desertus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēserō (“forsake, abandon”).

Participle

dēsertus m (feminine dēserta, neuter dēsertum); first/second declension

  1. deserted, abandoned, having been forsaken.
  2. (substantive in the plural) desert

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dēsertus dēserta dēsertum dēsertī dēsertae dēserta
Genitive dēsertī dēsertae dēsertī dēsertōrum dēsertārum dēsertōrum
Dative dēsertō dēsertae dēsertō dēsertīs dēsertīs dēsertīs
Accusative dēsertum dēsertam dēsertum dēsertōs dēsertās dēserta
Ablative dēsertō dēsertā dēsertō dēsertīs dēsertīs dēsertīs
Vocative dēserte dēserta dēsertum dēsertī dēsertae dēserta

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

  1. accusative plural form of deserts
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