disert
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin disertus or French disert.
Adjective
disert (comparative more disert, superlative most disert)
- (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
Etymology 2
Alternative spellings.
Noun
disert (plural diserts)
Verb
disert (third-person singular simple present diserts, present participle diserting, simple past and past participle diserted)
- Obsolete spelling of desert.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
disert (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserts, feminine plural disertes)
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.zɛʁ/
Audio: (file)
Adjective
disert (feminine diserte, masculine plural diserts, feminine plural disertes)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “disert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Paronyms
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
disert
- alternative form of desert (“deserved”)
Etymology 2
Noun
disert
- alternative form of desert (“wilderness”)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin disertus or French disert.
Adjective
disert m or n (feminine singular disertă, masculine plural diserți, feminine and neuter plural diserte)
Declension
singular | plural | |||||||
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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