despero
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dēspērō (present infinitive dēspērāre, perfect active dēspērāvī, supine dēspērātum); first conjugation
Inflection[edit]
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Descendants[edit]
- → Dutch: despereren
- → English: despair, desperate
- Italian: disperare
- Old French: desperer
- → Romanian: despera, dispera
- Spanish: desperar
References[edit]
- despero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- despero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- despero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to despair of one's position: desperare suis rebus
- to despair of one's position: desperare suis rebus