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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• desperately:
    1. I. To a degree forbidding hope: *ita ut spes amittatur, perdatur (desperatē only in Aug.).
    2. II. With the courage of despair; with extreme courage: pertĭnācissĭmē, fortissĭmē: or more precisely, *ut quibus ipsa desperatio animum addit.
    3. III. Vehemently, very greatly: Phr.: to be d. in love, perdite amare, Ter.; simly., misere amare, deperire, Pl.: d. angry, iratissimus: v. angry, etc.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• DESPERATELY
  • desperanter (without hope).
  • With verbs and adjectives, it expresses the intensity of the action or quality, and may be variously translated: improbe; sceleste; male; summe; suinmopere; maxime; valde; vehementer; acriter; pertinaciter. To defend one’s self desperately., *pertinacissime, or acerrime repugnare, resistere: to fall desperately in love, perdite or misere amare: to try desperately, perdite conari (Quint.): omnibus viribus contendere et laborare; omni ope atque opera eniti (ut, etc.): to be desperately angry, gravissima ira flagrare. It may often be translated by the superlative: desperately foolish, stolidissimus.