diserto

See also: disertó and disertò

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈzɛr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛrto
• Hyphenation: di‧sèr‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin dēsertus, perfect passive participle of dēserō (“I forsake, abandon”).

Adjective

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserti, feminine plural diserte) (archaic, literary)

1. forsaken, abandoned, deserted
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XXVI, p. 388, vv. 100-102:

     [...] misi me per l'alto mare aperto ¶ sol con un legno e con quella compagna ¶ picciola dalla qual non fui diserto. [...]

     [...] I put forth on the high open sea ¶ with one sole ship, and that small company ¶ by which I never had deserted been. [...]

2. (figuratively, of people) undone, ruined
   • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, Tommaso Hedlin (1527), page 209:

     Per certo, diſſe Calandrino, egli è coſì, di che io ſon diſerto & non ſo come io mi torni a caſa, [...]

     «Certes,» replied Calandrino, «it is so, more by token that I am undone and know not how I shall return home, [...]»

3. Archaic form of deserto.
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio, Bompiani (2001), Canto I, p. 18 vv. 130-132:

     Venimmo poi in sul lito diserto ¶ che mai non vide navicar sue acque ¶ uomo che di tornar sia poscia esperto.

     Then came we down upon the desert shore ¶ which never yet saw navigate its waters ¶ any that afterward had known return.

Related terms

• disertare

Etymology 2

From Latin dēsertum, substantivized neuter form of dēsertus, perfect passive participle of dēserō (“I forsake, abandon”).

Noun

diserto m (plural diserti) (literary)

1. Archaic form of deserto.
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto I, p. 11, vv. 64-66:

     Quando vidi costui nel gran diserto», ¶ «Miserere di me», gridai a lui, ¶ «qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo!»

     When I beheld him in the desert vast, ¶ «Have pity on me», unto him I cried, ¶ «whiche'er thou art, or shade or real man!»

Etymology 3

From Latin disertus (“eloquent”), from dissertus, past participle form of disserō (“I arrange, explain”).

Adjective

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserti, feminine plural diserte) (archaic, literary)

1. eloquent, well-spoken
2. (of speech) eloquent, persuasive
   • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Libro XV, page 324, lines 342-344:

     […] pochi in arringhe lo vincean, se gara ¶ fra giovani nascea nella bell'arte ¶ del diserto parlar. […]

     […] few could surpass him in debate, whenever ¶ competition arose among the young men on the fine art ¶ of eloquent speech. […]

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserti, feminine plural diserte)

1. Archaic form of disertato, past participle of disertare

Etymology 5

Verb

diserto

1. first-person singular present indicative of disertare

Anagrams

• detorsi, disterò, ordiste, ridesto, ridestò, rodesti

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) disertō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of disertus

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈseɾto/ [d̪iˈseɾ.t̪o]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin disertus (“skilled in speech, eloquent”), from disserō (“to examine, argue, discuss”).

Adjective

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural disertos, feminine plural disertas)

1. skilled in speaking, eloquent

Related terms

• disertación
• disertar

Etymology 2

Verb

diserto

1. first-person singular present indicative of disertar

Further reading

• “diserto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014