desero Latin · revision 6299

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la serō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdeː.sɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɛː.s̬e.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēserō''' (present infinitive dēserere, perfect active dēseruī, supine dēsertum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[dē-|t=away]] and [[serō]] “to join, link”: to sever one's connection.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of forsaking and failing someone.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to part from, forsake, leave a person, to abandon a place, as Cicero's abandoned fields, and to leave in a given state, as in Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to withdraw support, leave in the lurch, as in Plautus, of things to fail one, of doctors to give up a patient, as in Celsus, and in war to desert, as in Nepos.^(OLD 2012) It meant to abandon an activity, to fall short of a standard, and with ''vadimōnium'' to break one's bail, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to neglect, forsake, desert.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|desert]] “to abandon” came through French ''déserter'' about 1600, and [[en|desert]] “wasteland” from its participle ''dēsertum'' about 1200.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of forsaking someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of abandoned fields and breaking bail.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos uses it of military desertion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – English ''desert'' (verb) is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To forsake, leave; to abandon (a place).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To leave in the lurch, fail.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(military)'' To [[m|en|desert]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To give up (an activity).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(passive)'' To be deprived of.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēsertiō]]

+ * [[dēsertor]]

+ * [[dēsertrīx]]

+ * [[indēsertus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[serō]]

+ * [[dēsertus]]

+ * [[relinquō]]

+ * [[en|desert]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A rare homograph ''dēserō'', from [[dē-]] and [[serō]] “to sow”, meant to sow, plant, as in Varro.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}