delictum

Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From dēlinquō (“fail, be wanting”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈlik.tum/, [d̪eːˈlʲɪkt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈlik.tum/, [d̪eˈlikt̪um]

Noun

dēlictum n (genitive dēlictī); second declension

1. fault, offense, misdeed, crime, transgression
2. accusative singular of dēlictum
3. vocative singular of dēlictum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlictum	dēlicta
Genitive	dēlictī	dēlictōrum
Dative	dēlictō	dēlictīs
Accusative	dēlictum	dēlicta
Ablative	dēlictō	dēlictīs
Vocative	dēlictum	dēlicta

Related terms

• dēlictor
• dēliculus
• dēlinquō

 

Descendants

• → English: delict
• → German: Delikt
• Italian: delitto
• Ladin: delit
• Old French: delit
  • French: délit
• Portuguese: delito
• Spanish: delito

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dēlictum

1. nominative neuter singular of dēlictus
2. accusative masculine singular of dēlictus
3. accusative neuter singular of dēlictus
4. vocative neuter singular of dēlictus

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēlictum

1. accusative supine of dēlinquō

References

• “delictum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “delictum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• delictum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• delictum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “delictum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “delictum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin