relinquo
Latin
Etymology
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From re- + linquō (“I leave, forsake”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /reˈlin.kʷoː/, [rɛˈlʲɪŋkʷoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈlin.kwo/, [reˈliŋkwo]
Verb
relinquō (present infinitive relinquere, perfect active relīquī, supine relictum); third conjugation
- I abandon, relinquish, forsake, leave (behind)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: relinquish
- Spanish: relinquir
References
- “relinquo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “relinquo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- relinquo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to overtake and pass some one: post se relinquere aliquem
- a man loses his senses, becomes unconscious: animus relinquit aliquem
- to leave a great reputation behind one: magnam sui famam relinquere
- to leave a thing undecided: aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere (Cael. 20. 48)
- to leave a thing undecided: aliquid dubium, incertum relinquere
- to leave a point undecided: in controversia relinquere aliquid
- to follow the standards: signa sequi (opp. a signis discedere, signa relinquere)
- to leave troops to guard the camp: praesidio castris milites relinquere
- to give up an assault, a siege: oppugnationem, obsidionem relinquere
- let us leave that undecided: hoc in medio relinquamus
- (ambiguous) something has been left as a legacy by some one: hereditate aliquid relictum est ab aliquo
- to overtake and pass some one: post se relinquere aliquem