delictum

Latin

Etymology

From dēlinquō (“fail, be wanting”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈlik.tum/, [d̪eːˈlʲɪkt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈlik.tum/, [d̪eˈlikt̪um]

Noun

dēlictum n (genitive dēlictī); second declension

  1. fault, offense, misdeed, crime, transgression
    Synonyms: peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, culpa, error, crīmen, facinus, dēlinquentia, iniūria, malum, commissum, maleficium
    Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs

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

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

Participle

dēlictum

  1. inflection of dēlictus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

Verb

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
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