Noun: diserto
Gender: m
Hyphenation: di‧sèr‧to
| Singular m | diserto |
| Plural m | diserti |
Sample Sentences
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Quando vidi costui nel gran diserto,
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«Miserere di me», gridai a lui,
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«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!») [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like diserto
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin dēsertum, substantivized neuter form of dēsertus, perfect passive participle of dēserō (“to forsake, abandon”). See: Latin Nouns '
dēsertum'.
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