deserti
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;
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →desertus, deserta -um, desertior -or -us, desertissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
deserted, uninhabited, without people; solitary/lonely; forsaken; desert/waste;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.) - Entry →desertum, deserti:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
desert; wilderness (pl.); unfrequented places; desert places, wastes (L+S);
gen. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- D
Satura VII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...foedum alii nec turpe putarent praecones fieri, cum desertis Aganippes uallibus esuriens migraret in atria Clio..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...omne studium et liberalia professi sine ulla frequentia desertis angulis praesident; in rhetorum ac philosophorum scholis solitudo..." - L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quia tantum suburbani agri possidet quantum invidiose in desertis Apuliae possideret: cum omnia dixeris, pauper est. Quare? quia..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ille? carmine in terras mago descendat astris Luna desertis licet et bruma messes uideat et cantu fugax stet..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...omne monstrum. tracta magicis cantibus squamifera latebris turba desertis adest. hic saeua serpens corpus immensum trahit trifidamque linguam..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...orbata est avibus, mutoque in litore tantum solae desertis adspirant frondibus aurae. Nec minor in Campo furor..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quod isokolon dicitur. "Si, quantum in agro locisque desertis audacia potest, tantum in foro atque iudiciis impudentia valeret..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...longe alio pacto gannitu vocis adulant, et cum deserti baubantur in aedibus, aut cum plorantis fugiunt summisso corpore..."
