desertum

Latin

Etymology

From dēsertus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈser.tum/, [d̪eːˈs̠ɛrt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈser.tum/, [d̪eˈs̬ɛrt̪um]

Noun

dēsertum n (genitive dēsertī); second declension

1. a desert, wasteland

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēsertum	dēserta
Genitive	dēsertī	dēsertōrum
Dative	dēsertō	dēsertīs
Accusative	dēsertum	dēserta
Ablative	dēsertō	dēsertīs
Vocative	dēsertum	dēserta

Descendants

• Asturian: desiertu
• Catalan: desert
• English: desert
• French: désert
• Friulian: desert, disiert
• Galician: deserto
• Istriot: dazierto
• Italian: deserto, diserto

• Norman: d'sèrt
• Occitan: desèrt
• Portuguese: deserto
• Romanian: deșert
• Romansch: desert, desiert, dasiert
• Sardinian: deseltu, desertu, diseltu
• Sicilian: disertu
• Spanish: desierto

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dēsertum

1. nominative neuter singular of dēsertus
2. accusative masculine singular of dēsertus
3. accusative neuter singular of dēsertus
4. vocative neuter singular of dēsertus

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēsertum

1. accusative supine of dēserō

References

• “desertum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• desertum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• desertum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be abandoned by good luck: a fortuna desertum, derelictum esse