relinquir

Middle French

Alternative forms

• relenquir

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French relenquir, with the second e replaced by an i to more closely match the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spelling relinquere.

Verb

relinquir

1. to give up; to abandon

Synonyms

• delaisser

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (relenquir)