desperatio
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
Noun
dēspērātiō f (genitive dēspērātiōnis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēspērātiō | dēspērātiōnēs |
| genitive | dēspērātiōnis | dēspērātiōnum |
| dative | dēspērātiōnī | dēspērātiōnibus |
| accusative | dēspērātiōnem | dēspērātiōnēs |
| ablative | dēspērātiōne | dēspērātiōnibus |
| vocative | dēspērātiō | dēspērātiōnēs |
Descendants
- English: desperation
- Italian: disperazione
- Piedmontese: disperassion
- Portuguese: desesperação
- Romanian: desperație
- Spanish: desesperación
References
- “desperatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desperatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “desperatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be plunged into the depths of despair: ad (summam) desperationem pervenire, adduci (B. C. 2. 42)
- absolute despair; a hopeless situation: desperatio rerum (omnium) (Catil. 2. 11. 25)
- to be plunged into the depths of despair: ad (summam) desperationem pervenire, adduci (B. C. 2. 42)