delinquo Latin · revision 31586

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la linquō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈlɪŋ.kʷoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈliŋ.kʷo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēlinquō''' (present infinitive dēlinquere, perfect active dēlīquī, supine dēlictum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Livy's manuscripts have a perfect ''delinquērunt''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Biblical Latin also has ''dēlinquī''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|linquō|t2=to leave]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives ⟨linquō⟩ from the nasal present [[ine-pro|*li-n-kʷ-|t=to leave]], cognate with [[sa|रिणक्ति|tr=riṇákti|t=leaves]], [[grc|λείπω|tr=leípō|t=to leave]] and [[got|𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽|tr=leiƕan|t=to lend]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has its moral sense, “to do wrong”: “whoever has erred will be beaten, whoever has not will drink”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense, to be lacking, fail, is rare; the historian Caelius has grain running short, and the word is also used of an eclipse.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Most uses are moral: to fall short, misbehave, do wrong, from Plautus on, with an internal accusative to commit an offence (“the country people don't do anything wrong, do they?”) or with the person wronged (“what wrong have I done you?”).^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for fail, sin, do wrong, offend.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of doing wrong.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of misbehaviour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be lacking, fail; of a heavenly body, to be eclipsed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To fall short of a standard, do wrong, [[m|en|offend]], [[m|en|transgress]], err.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To commit an offence; to wrong someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēlictor]]

+ * [[dēlictum]]

+ * [[dēlicuus]]

+ * [[dēlinquentia]]

+ * [[dēliquiō]]

+ * [[dēliquium]]

+ * [[indēlictus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dērelinquō]]

+ * [[relinquō]]

+ * [[linquō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}