Perfect passive participle ofdesperare(“to despair”), active infinitive ofdēspērō(“I despair”).
dēspērātus (femininedēspērāta,neuterdēspērātum,comparativedēspērātior,superlativedēspērātissimus);first/second-declension adjective
- desperate,hopeless
- despairing
- reckless
First/second-declension adjective.
- “desperatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desperatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "desperatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- desperatus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.