disert

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin disertus or French disert.

Adjective

disert (comparative more disert, superlative most disert)

1. (obsolete, rare) Eloquent.
   • 1637, Jacob Verheiden, translated by Donald Lupton, The history of the moderne protestant divines, page 282:

     To John Foxe, his honoured Father, the faithfull Martyrologian […] a most disert searcher into the Antiquities of Histories […]

   • 1661, Gabriel Naudé, translated by John Evelyn, Instructions concerning erecting of a library presented to my lord, the President De Mesme, page 45:

     […] not that they are better, or more disert and eloquent than those [sc. books] of this learned Scotchman […]

   • 1675, Edward Sherburne, quoting Joseph Scaliger, “Preface”, in The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix:

     […] for whence […] can they better derive the Principles of that Science, than from this most Disert Poet […]

Derived terms

• disertly

Etymology 2

Alternative spellings.

Noun

disert (plural diserts)

1. Obsolete spelling of desert.
2. Obsolete spelling of dessert.

Verb

disert (third-person singular simple present diserts, present participle diserting, simple past and past participle diserted)

1. Obsolete spelling of desert.

Anagrams

• driest, direst, tiders, stride, redist, ridest, drites, Stride, dister

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin disertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [diˈze̞rt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Northwestern) [diˈzɛrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈzɛɾt]

Adjective

disert (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserts, feminine plural disertes)

1. eloquent, loquacious

Further reading

• “disert”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin disertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

disert (feminine diserte, masculine plural diserts, feminine plural disertes)

1. eloquent, forthcoming
2. talkative

Derived terms

• disertement

Further reading

• “disert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Paronyms

• désert

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

disert

1. alternative form of desert (“deserved”)

Etymology 2

Noun

disert

1. alternative form of desert (“wilderness”)

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin disertuslbor.

Latin disertuslbor.

French disertbor.

Romanian disert

Learned borrowing from Latin disertus, or borrowed from French disert.

Adjective

disert m or n (feminine singular disertă, masculine plural diserți, feminine/neuter plural diserte)

1. eloquent

Declension

Declension of disert

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	disert		disertă	diserți	diserte
	definite	disertul		diserta	diserții	disertele
genitive- dative	indefinite	disert		diserte	diserți	diserte
	definite	disertului		disertei	diserților	disertelor

References

• disert in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN