DESOLATE Copy link • DESOLATE 1. adj., vastus (without human habitations; opposed to coaedificatus, Georges; uncultivated, opposed to cultus; Döderlein): desertus (deserted by men; opposed to celeber, Georges; to habitatus, Döderlein): incultus (opposed to cultus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) vastus ac desertus; desertus vastusque; incultus et desertus; incultus et derelictus. Desolate places, solitudo (without blame): loca deserta: tesqua (in which an awful silence reigns; Döderlein, Hor.): to make desolate, vastare, devastare; alicui loco vastitatem inferre: to make a land desolate, vastas solitudines facere ex terra; vastitatem reddere in terra; tectis atque agris vastitatem inferre. Of persons; hopeless, etc., spe destitutus: orbus: orbus auxilii (Plaut.): afflictus: moestus, etc.: desolatus (Plin., Tac., and poetical); also with ablative (deserta desolataque reliquis subsidiis aula, Suet.). 2. v. Vid: LAY WASTE.