deserta

deserta is a Latin form of desero, meaning “abandon, desert”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 172 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.114: … ensis complurisque alios publice dicere quae solitudo esset in agris, quae vastitas, quae fuga aratorum, quam deserta, quam inculta, quam relicta omnia. ea tametsi multis istius et variis iniuriis acciderunt, tamen haec una cau …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 7.27.6: … quoque, quamquam abscesserat imago, memoria imaginis oculis inerrabat, longiorque causis timoris timor erat. Deserta inde et damnata solitudine domus totaque illi monstro relicta; proscribebatur tamen, seu quis emere seu quis …

All forms of desero (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.