{"era":"current","word":"desert","meaning":"arid wasteland; to abandon","children":[{"era":"1200s","word":"desert","meaning":"uninhabited wilderness","children":[{"era":"900s–1100s","word":"desert","meaning":"wasteland, wilderness","children":[{"era":"classical","word":"desertum","meaning":"a lonely, forsaken place (past participle of deserere)","children":[{"era":"classical","word":"deserere","meaning":"to abandon, forsake","children":[{"era":"classical","word":"de- + serere","meaning":"to un-join, disconnect","children":[],"language":"Latin"}],"language":"Latin"}],"language":"Latin"}],"language":"Old French"}],"language":"Middle English"}],"language":"Modern English"}