despero
Esperanto
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [desˈpero]
- Rhymes: -ero
- Hyphenation: des‧pe‧ro
Noun
despero (accusative singular desperon, plural desperoj, accusative plural desperojn)
- deep despair
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːsˈpeː.roː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈpeːroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /desˈpe.ro/, [d̪esˈpɛːro]
Verb
dēspērō (present infinitive dēspērāre, perfect active dēspērāvī, supine dēspērātum); first conjugation
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Descendants
- → Dutch: despereren
- Italian: disperare
- Old French: desperer
- → Middle English: dispeir
- English: despair
- → Middle English: dispeir
- Piedmontese: disperé
- → Romanian: despera, dispera
- Spanish: desperar
References
- “despero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “despero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- despero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to despair of one's position: desperare suis rebus
- to despair of one's position: desperare suis rebus
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desˈpeɾo/ [d̪esˈpe.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: des‧pe‧ro
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