derelinquo Latin · revision 34501

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *li-n-kʷ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dērelinquō''' (present infinitive dērelinquere, perfect active dērelīquī, supine dērelictum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|relinquō|t2=to leave behind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|linquō|t=to leave]], whose forms de Vaan regards as inherited, from a present [[ine-pro|*li-n-kʷ-|t=to leave]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Cognate with [[sga|léicid|t=to let go, leave]], [[sa|रिणक्ति|tr=riṇákti|t=leaves]] and [[grc|λείπω|tr=leípō|t=to leave]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) but the TLL and Lewis & Short cite it already in Plautus' ''Truculentus'', where a speaker complains of being treated ''quasi pro derelicta'', as if abandoned.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it means to abandon wholly:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus has a mind left lying in deep mud, and Cicero saw Tiberius Gracchus deserted by Quintus Tubero and his friends.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it of farmers abandoning their land and of sowing in uncultivated and abandoned ground,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) and Caesar of ships left stranded by the tide.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law ''prō dērelictō habēre'' is to treat a possession as abandoned, and jurists use the verb for giving up a claim.^(Conte 2010)^(OLD 2012) It could also mean to leave behind at death: Sallust has a son whom his father had left a private person,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and in Late Latin it is to bequeath, as Arnobius has books left behind and Jerome a large debt.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Christian writers use it often for forsaking God or being forsaken by him: the Vulgate has it with ''Dominum'' as object, and the TLL records it in the Old Latin Bible, Tertullian and the Vulgate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Ecclesiastical dictionaries give it as abandon, forsake, desert.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has ''quasi pro derelicta'', “as if abandoned”.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of abandoned land or buildings.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of deserted friends and abandoned farmland.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of a son left behind at a father's death.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses it of books bequeathed.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of forsaking the Lord.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|abandon]] wholly, leave behind, [[m|en|neglect]], discard.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|desert]] (a person); ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' to [[m|en|forsake]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To abandon (land or buildings), leave [[m|en|derelict]]; to give up (an action).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To leave behind at death;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(Late Latin)'' to [[m|en|bequeath]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' To give up a claim to or possession of;^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) ''prō dērelictō habēre'', to treat as abandoned.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dērelictiō]]

+ * [[dērelictus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[relinquō]]

+ * [[linquō]]

+ * [[dēlinquō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}