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despero

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Compare Ido desespero, English despair.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [desˈpero]
  • Rhymes: -ero
  • Hyphenation: des‧pe‧ro

Noun

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despero (accusative singular desperon, plural desperoj, accusative plural desperojn)

  1. deep despair

See also

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Latin

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Etymology

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From de- +‎ spero.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dēspērō (present infinitive dēspērāre, perfect active dēspērāvī, supine dēspērātum); first conjugation

  1. to have no hope of
  2. to despair of

Conjugation

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1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Descendants

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References

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  • despero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • despero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • despero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to despair of one's position: desperare suis rebus

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /desˈpeɾo/ [d̪esˈpe.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -eɾo
  • Syllabification: des‧pe‧ro

Verb

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despero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of desperar