deseruerunt
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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...meum. nunc simul res, fides, fama, virtus, decus deseruerunt: ego sum in usu factus nimio nequior. atque edepol..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...tarde ire horas queruntur; nam si quando illos deseruerunt occupationes, in otio relicti aestuant nec quomodo id disponant..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...exercitum illum esse nobis quam hos, qui exercitum deseruerunt, pertimescendos. Atque hoc etiam sunt timendi magis, quod, quid..."