The story
- Latin · borrowed fromdesertor“deserter”
- English todaydeserter
Borrowed from Latin desertor (“deserter”), from desero (“to forsake, to abandon”); or from desert + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
deserter
Today it means: A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving Full definition →
Latin desertor