desertum

Latin

Etymology

From dēsertus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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
• Old French: desert
  • French: désert
  • → Middle English: desert, deserte, deseert, desserte, decert, decerte, disert, dissert, dyssert
    • English: desert
• 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
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dīsertum
  • → Old Irish: dísert
    • Irish: díseart
  • → Proto-Brythonic:
    • Breton: deserzh
    • Welsh: diserth

Participle

dēsertum

1. inflection of dēsertus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Verb

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