desperado
English
editEtymology
editFrom obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdesperado (plural desperadoes or desperados)
- A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets:
- The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 6:
- Surely this was the face of a desperado.
- (colloquial) A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
- 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor:
- The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
- (colloquial) A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
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editCebuano
editEtymology
editCebuanized form of English desperate, from Latin dēspērātus, past participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”). Spanish desperado is a false friend.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdesperado (feminine desperada)
- in dire need of something
- being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless
- without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious
Verb
editdesperado (feminine desperada)
- to be in dire need of something
- to be reckless due to desperation
Noun
editdesperado (feminine desperada)
- a desperate male person
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:desperado.
Danish
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish desperado (“desperate person”), past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”).
Noun
editdesperado c (singular definite desperadoen, plural indefinite desperados or desperadoer)
- desperado (outlaw)
Declension
editcommon gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | desperado | desperadoen | desperados desperadoer |
desperadoerne |
genitive | desperados | desperadoens | desperados' desperadoers |
desperadoernes |
See also
editReferences
editFinnish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish desperado
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdesperado
- (chiefly in literature) desperado (SW US or Mexican outlaw)
Declension
editInflection of desperado (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | desperado | desperadot | |
genitive | desperadon | desperadojen | |
partitive | desperadoa | desperadoja | |
illative | desperadoon | desperadoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | desperado | desperadot | |
accusative | nom. | desperado | desperadot |
gen. | desperadon | ||
genitive | desperadon | desperadojen | |
partitive | desperadoa | desperadoja | |
inessive | desperadossa | desperadoissa | |
elative | desperadosta | desperadoista | |
illative | desperadoon | desperadoihin | |
adessive | desperadolla | desperadoilla | |
ablative | desperadolta | desperadoilta | |
allative | desperadolle | desperadoille | |
essive | desperadona | desperadoina | |
translative | desperadoksi | desperadoiksi | |
abessive | desperadotta | desperadoitta | |
instructive | — | desperadoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English desperado.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdesperado m (plural desperados)
Further reading
edit- “desperado”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editdesperado (feminine desperada, masculine plural desperados, feminine plural desperadas)
- Obsolete form of desesperado.
Participle
editdesperado (feminine desperada, masculine plural desperados, feminine plural desperadas)
Further reading
edit- “desperado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
editEtymology
editProbably a pseudo-Hispanism, from English desperate, and influenced by Spanish desesperado.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /despeˈɾado/ [d̪ɛs.pɛˈɾaː.d̪o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: des‧pe‧ra‧do
Adjective
editdesperado (feminine desperada, Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜇᜓ)
- (common) alternative form of des-esperado: desperate; hopeless
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