Desolo, desólas, pen. prod. desolâre. A solus adiectiuo deriuatum. To make desolate vt, Desolare agros. Colum. Vrbes desolauimus.Stat.We haue made cities desolate.Penates desolati.Stat.Deserta & desolata loca. Plin. Desart places lefte without inhabitants.Agmen desolatum magistro.Stat.A companie that hath lost their captaine.Desolatus filius, Plin. iunior. An onely sonne lefte after the death of his father.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-sōlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to leave alone, to forsake, abandon, desert (not anteAug., perh. first used by Verg.; most freq. in the part. perf.). (a).Verb finit.: desolavimus agros, Verg. A. 11, 367: agros profugiendo, Col. 1, 3, 11: urbes, Stat. Th. 6, 917: locum, Vulg. Psa. 78, 7.—(b).Part. perf., forsaken, deserted, left alone: desolatae terrae, Ov. M. 1, 349; cf.: tecta domorum, Stat. Th. 1, 653: manipli, Verg. A. 11, 870.—So of persons, Stat. S. 2, 1, 233; Plin. Ep. 4, 21, 3; Tac. A. 1, 30; 16, 30fin.; Just. 1, 7, 3 (dub.); cf. with abl., robbed, deprived of: desolatus servilibus ministeriis, Tac. A. 12, 26; Plin. 10, 12, 16, 34: agmen magistro, Stat. Th. 9, 672: aevo jam desolata senectus, i. e.