desperado

The story

1. Latin · derived fromdisperare“to despair, to lose hope”
2. Spanish · derived fromdesperado
3. English todaydesperado

From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.