desertos
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;
acc. 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;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
FRAGMENTA EX LIBRIS DE VIRIS ILLVSTRIBVS
Cornelius Nepos
"...preces expetere, quos vivos atque praesentes relictos atque desertos habueris? Ne ille sirit Iuppiter te ea perseverare..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...mortisque timentis poenibat paulo post turpi morte malaque, desertos, opis expertis, incuria mactans. qui fuerant autem praesto, contagibus..."Liber XII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...raptus Tyndaris ipsa tuos: Tu melior, quae deserto raptore redisti, Illa virum voluit nec repetita sequi. Ridet..."Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...mihi, Phylli, nega. L (XLIX) Jam prope desertos cineres et sancta Maronis nomina qui coleret pauper et unus..."Liber IV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...matutinum nostra Thalia Iouem. Sotae filia clinici, Labulla, deserto sequeris Clytum marito, et donas et amas: echeis asotos..."de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...hominis uestigium, per diem noctemque titillari uelit et deserto animo corpori operam dare? VI. 1. 'Sed animus quoque..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...veneratus erat submissa Bosporos unda, pro pudor! imperii deserto nomine fugit, ut Fortuna levis Magni quoque terga videret..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...incendit uirtute animos et amore laborum, inreducemque uiam deserto limite carpit; et sacrum paruo nomen clausura sepulchro inuasit..."
