desperatio

Latin

Etymology

despero +‎ -tio.

Noun

dēspērātiō f (genitive dēspērātiōnis); third declension

1. hopelessness, despair
2. desperation
3. foolhardiness

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, 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)