diserto

See also: disertó and disertò

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈzɛr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛrto
• Hyphenation: di‧sèr‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin dēsertus, perfect passive participle of dēserō (“to forsake, abandon”).

Adjective

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserti, feminine plural diserte) (archaic, literary)

1. forsaken, abandoned, deserted
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     [...] misi me per l'alto mare aperto
     sol con un legno e con quella compagna
     picciola dalla qual non fui diserto.

     I put forth on the high open sea with just a ship, and that small company by which I'd never been deserted

2. (figurative) undone, ruined (of people)
   • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata ottava, Novella VI [Eighth day, Story 6]”, in Decamerone [Decameron]‎^[3], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 208:

     Percerto, disse Calandrino, egliè cosi, diche io son diserto et non so come io mi torni a casa

     "Certes," replied Calandrino, "it is so, more by token that I am undone and know not how I shall return home"

3. (archaic) Alternative form of deserto
   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎^[4], lines 130–132; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[5], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Venimmo poi in sul lito diserto
     che mai non vide navicar sue acque
     uomo che di tornar sia poscia esperto.

     Then came we down upon the desert shore which never yet saw navigate its waters any that afterward had known return.

Related terms

• disertare

Etymology 2

From Latin dēsertum, substantivized neuter form of dēsertus, perfect passive participle of dēserō (“to forsake, abandon”).

Noun

diserto m (plural diserti) (literary)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of deserto
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[6], lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[7], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Quando vidi costui nel gran diserto,
     «Miserere di me», gridai a lui,
     «qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo!»

     When I beheld him in the desert vast, «Have pity on me», unto him I cried, «whiche'er thou art, or shade or real man!»

Etymology 3

From Latin disertus (“eloquent”), from dissertus, past participle form of disserō (“to arrange, explain”).

Adjective

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserti, feminine plural diserte) (archaic, literary)

1. eloquent, well-spoken
2. eloquent, persuasive (of speech)
   • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Libro XV, page 324, lines 342–344:

     pochi in arringhe lo vincean, se gara
     fra giovani nascea nella bell'arte
     del diserto parlar. […]

     Few could surpass him in debate, whenever competition arose among the young men on the fine art of eloquent speech

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural diserti, feminine plural diserte)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of disertato, past participle of disertare

Etymology 5

Verb

diserto

1. first-person singular present indicative of disertare

Anagrams

• detorsi, disterò, ordiste, ridesto, ridestò, rodesti

Latin

Adjective

disertō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of disertus

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈseɾto/ [d̪iˈseɾ.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eɾto
• Syllabification: di‧ser‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin disertus (“skilled in speech, eloquent”), from disserō (“to examine, argue, discuss”).

Adjective

diserto (feminine diserta, masculine plural disertos, feminine plural disertas)

1. skilled in speaking, eloquent

Related terms

• disertación
• disertar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

diserto

1. first-person singular present indicative of disertar

Further reading

• “diserto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10