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"Departed," "deserted" and "left" are literal English equivalents of the Latin word dēsertus. The masculine singular past participle also translates as "abandoned," "forsaken," "given up" and even "let down" according to English contexts. The pronunciation will be "DEY-ser-toos" in Church and classical Latin.

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