- destitute (adj.)
- late 14c., "abandoned, forsaken," from Latin destitutus "abandoned," past participle of destituere "forsake," from de- "away" + statuere "put, place," causative of stare "to stand," from PIE root *stā- "to stand" (see stet). Originally literal; sense of "lacking resources, impoverished" is 1530s.
