Latin

Noun

dēsertum n ‎(genitive dēsertī); second declension

1. a desert, wasteland

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

Participle

dēsertum

1. nominative neuter singular of dēsertus
2. accusative masculine singular of dēsertus
3. accusative neuter singular of dēsertus
4. vocative neuter singular of dēsertus

Verb

dēsertum

1. 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “desertum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be abandoned by good luck: a fortuna desertum, derelictum esse