deseramus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desero, deserere, deserui, desertus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
leave/depart/quit/desert; forsake/abandon/give up; withdraw support, let down;; cease to be concerned with; fail/fall short; (PASS w/ABL) be without/deprived;; plant, sow;
pl. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...gemens sequitur. Quare inpigriatque alacres excipiamus imperia nec deseramus hunc operis pulcherrimicursum, cui quidquid patiemur intextum..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...neque retinere possumus ut non deum aut belli deseramus curam. Otacilius sororis meae filiam uxorem atque..."