desperado
English edit
Etymology edit
From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.
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Noun edit
desperado (plural desperadoes or desperados)
- A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets:
- The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 6:
- Surely this was the face of a desperado.
- (colloquial) A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
- 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor:
- The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
- (colloquial) A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
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Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Cebuanized form of English desperate, from Latin dēspērātus, past participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”). Spanish desperado is a false friend.
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Adjective edit
desperado (feminine desperada)
- in dire need of something
- being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless
- without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious
Verb edit
desperado (feminine desperada)
- to be in dire need of something
- to be reckless due to desperation
Noun edit
desperado (feminine desperada)
- a desperate male person
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:desperado.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish desperado (“desperate person”), past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”).
Noun edit
desperado c (singular definite desperadoen, plural indefinite desperados or desperadoer)
- desperado (outlaw)
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | desperado | desperadoen | desperados desperadoer |
desperadoerne |
genitive | desperados | desperadoens | desperados' desperadoers |
desperadoernes |
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Finnish edit
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Noun edit
desperado
- (chiefly in literature) desperado (SW US or Mexican outlaw)
Declension edit
Inflection of desperado (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | desperado | desperadot | ||
genitive | desperadon | desperadojen | ||
partitive | desperadoa | desperadoja | ||
illative | desperadoon | desperadoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | desperado | desperadot | ||
accusative | nom. | desperado | desperadot | |
gen. | desperadon | |||
genitive | desperadon | desperadojen | ||
partitive | desperadoa | desperadoja | ||
inessive | desperadossa | desperadoissa | ||
elative | desperadosta | desperadoista | ||
illative | desperadoon | desperadoihin | ||
adessive | desperadolla | desperadoilla | ||
ablative | desperadolta | desperadoilta | ||
allative | desperadolle | desperadoille | ||
essive | desperadona | desperadoina | ||
translative | desperadoksi | desperadoiksi | ||
abessive | desperadotta | desperadoitta | ||
instructive | — | desperadoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English desperado.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
desperado m (plural desperados)
Further reading edit
- “desperado”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
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desperado (feminine desperada, masculine plural desperados, feminine plural desperadas)
- Obsolete form of desesperado.
Participle edit
desperado (feminine desperada, masculine plural desperados, feminine plural desperadas)
Further reading edit
- “desperado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Probably a pseudo-Hispanism, from English desperate, and influenced by Spanish desesperado.
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Adjective edit
desperado (feminine desperada, Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜇᜓ)
- (common) alternative form of desesperado: desperate; hopeless