delict

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēlīctum (“fault”), neuter of dēlīctus, past participle of delinquo (“to fail; to be lacking”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪkt/, /ˈdiːlɪkt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

delict (plural delicts)

1. (civil law, Scots law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. [from the early 16th c.]

   Synonyms: misdemeanor, tort, transgression, tortfeasance; see also Thesaurus:misdeed

2. (law) The branch of law dealing in delicts.

Derived terms

• delictual
• quasi-delict

Related terms

• in flagrant delict

Translations

law: wrongful act

• Bulgarian: нарушение на закона n (narušenie na zakona)
• Finnish: delikti
• Indonesian: delik (id)
• Macedonian: пре́стап m (préstap), прекршу́вање на за́конот m (prekršúvanje na zákonot), пре́кршок m (prékršok)
• Polish: delikt (pl) m
• Serbo-Croatian: delikt (sh) m

See also

• delict on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scots Law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• corpus delicti

Anagrams

• Deltic, deltic

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch delict, from Latin dēlīctum (“fault”), neuter of dēlīctus, past participle of delinquo (“to fail; to be lacking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəˈlɪkt/, /deːˈlɪkt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: de‧lict
• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Noun

delict n (plural delicten, diminutive delictje n)

1. crime, wrong

Synonyms

• misdrijf

Derived terms

• delictpleger
• plaats delict

Descendants

• → Indonesian: delik

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēlīctum.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

delict n (plural delicte)

1. crime

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	delict	delictul	delicte	delictele
genitive-dative	delict	delictului	delicte	delictelor
vocative	delictule		delictelor

See also

• infracțiune
• crimă