desertus

Perfect passive participle of dēserō (“forsake, abandon”).

dēsertus (feminine dēserta, neuter dēsertum, comparative dēsertior, superlative dēsertissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. deserted, abandoned, forsaken; having been deserted, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.562–563:

     “[...] subiit dēserta Creūsa,
     et dīrepta domus, et parvī cāsūs Iūlī.”

     “[...] the thought of Creusa having been forsaken, and my home laid waste, and the misfortune of little Iulus.”
     (As Troy falls Aeneas fears for the safety of his own family.)

2. (substantive in the plural) desert

First/second-declension adjective.

• dēsertum
• dēsertiō
• indēsertus

• “desertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “desertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• desertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • deserts: loca deserta (opp. frequentia)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be abandoned by good luck: a fortuna desertum, derelictum esse
    

desertus m

1. accusative plural of deserts