desolatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From dēsōlō (“to leave alone; lay waste”) + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deː.soːˈɫaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [de.s̬oˈlat.t͡si.o] === Noun === dēsōlātiō f (genitive dēsōlātiōnis); third declension desolation desert solitude ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== →? Catalan: desolació f Old French: desolacion f Middle French: desolation fFrench: désolation f → English: desolation Italian: desolazione f → Portuguese: desolação f → Spanish: desolación f === References === “desolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “desolatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.