deserui
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st - Entry →deservio, deservire, deservivi, deservitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Taking Dative
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
serve; devote oneself to (interest/job); be subject to; be of service/use to;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uitae ac necis Meae penes me est. Regna deserui libens; Regnum mei retineo. Si fida es comes, Ensem..." - L
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...more coetus publicos uirgo petis? [El.] Adulterorum uirgo deserui domum. [Cl.] Quis esse credat uirginem—[El.] Gnatam tuam..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...secare membra non reuicturi senis: [aliena quaerens regna, deserui mea] per spes tuorum liberum et certum larem..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...iussus ab imperatore": "dona templi cogenti tyranno dedi": "deserui tempestatibus, fluminibus, valetudine impeditus..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...gremium reuocatis cuius quisque eorum uelit libri lectione deseruiant. Nam mihi cum facilius, tum etiam multo uidetur magis..." - M
XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...castra pertulit, non arma proieci, non stationes vallumque deserui; totam orbitatem meam in bella converti, tamquam liberos meos..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...cupiens solacia casus monstriferae Calydonis opes Acheloiaque arua deserui; uestris haec me ecce in finibus ingens nox operit..."