disert

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin disertus or French disert.

Adjective

disert (comparative more disert, superlative most disert)

1. (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

• disertly

Etymology 2

Alternative spellings.

Noun

disert (plural diserts)

1. Obsolete spelling of desert.
2. Obsolete spelling of dessert.

Verb

disert (third-person singular simple present diserts, present participle diserting, simple past and past participle diserted)

1. Obsolete spelling of desert.

Anagrams

• driest, direst, tiders, stride, redist, ridest, drites, Stride, dister

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin disertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈzɛrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈzɛɾt]

Adjective

disert (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserts, feminine plural disertes)

1. eloquent, loquacious

Further reading

• “disert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin disertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zɛʁ/

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Adjective

disert (feminine diserte, masculine plural diserts, feminine plural disertes)

1. eloquent, forthcoming
2. talkative

Derived terms

• disertement

Further reading

• “disert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Paronyms

• désert

 

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

disert

1. Alternative form of desert (“deserved”)

Etymology 2

Noun

disert

1. 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)

1. eloquent

Declension

		singular				plural
		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