dēsertus adj. with comp. and sup. P. of desero, deserted, desert, solitary, lonely, waste: angiportus, T.: anus, T.: planities penuriā aquae, S.: loca, Cs.: urbes: via: portūs, V.: vetustas, long disuse, H.: reditus desertior: nihil desertius: orae desertissimae: solitudo.

—Plur n. as subst, desert places, deserts, wastes: Libyae deserta, V.: ferarum, the lonely haunts, V.