desperata

desperata is a Latin form of despero, meaning “despair (of), give up hope; (desperatus) hopeless, desperate”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.3.3: prope iam desperata salute non nullae eius modi sententiae dicebantur, ut impedimentis relictis eruptione facta isdem itineribus quibus eo pervenissent ad salutem contenderent.

Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 85: … is abiectis in regia castra fugere contendunt. Quo postquam pervenerunt, ea quoque ab Iulianis teneri vident. Desperata salute in quodam colle consistunt atque armis demissis salutationem more militari faciunt. Quibus miseris ea …

All forms of despero (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.