desertus

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, having been forsaken.
(substantive in the plural) desert

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Asturian: desiertu
English: deserted
French: désert
Istro-Romanian: deșǫrt
Italian: deserto, diserto
Portuguese: deserto
Romanian: deșert
Spanish: desierto
- → Cebuano: disyerto

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 form of deserts

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