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desperatione

desperatione is a Latin form of desperatio, meaning “despair”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 61 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.33.5: nam et nostris militibus spem minuit et hostes ad pugnam alacriores effecit, quod non sine summo timore et desperatione id factum videbatur. Praeterea accidit, quod fieri necesse erat, ut vulgo milites ab signis discederent, quae …

All forms of desperatio (declension 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.