desertar

Borrowed from French déserter, from Late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus.

desertar (first-person singular indicative present deserto, past participle desertáu)

1. to desert (leave military service)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.zərˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.zeɾˈtaɾ]

desertar (first-person singular present deserto, first-person singular preterite desertí, past participle desertat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive or intransitive) to abandon (an obligation or ideal)
2. (military, intransitive) to desert

• “desertar”, 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

Borrowed from French déserter,^[1] from Late Latin dēsertāre,^[2] from Latin desertus.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [d͡zɾˈtaɾ]
• Hyphenation: de‧ser‧tar

desertar (first-person singular present deserto, first-person singular preterite desertei, past participle desertado)

1. to desert (leave military service)

Not to be confused with deserdar (“to disinherit”).

Borrowed from French déserter, from Late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus.

• IPA^(key): /deseɾˈtaɾ/ [d̪e.seɾˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧ser‧tar

desertar (first-person singular present deserto, first-person singular preterite deserté, past participle desertado)

1. to desert

• “desertar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024