delinquo

From dē- +‎ linquō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈlɪŋ.kʷoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈliŋ.kʷo]

dēlinquō (present infinitive dēlinquere, perfect active dēlīquī, supine dēlictum); third conjugation

1. to fail in one's duty

   Synonyms: discēdō, dēficiō, cadō, dēsum

   Antonyms: perficiō, impetrō, perpetrō, ēvincō

2. to be wanting, lacking

   Synonyms: careō, egeō, indigeō, deficiō, dēsum, cessō, perdō

   Antonyms: flōreō, niteō, abundō, affluō

3. to commit a fault, do something wrong; transgress, offend, err

   Synonyms: violō, peccō, lābor, errō, committō, offendō

   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.90:

     ferretne civitas ulla latorem istius modi legis, ut condemnaretur filius aut nepos, si pater aut avus deliquisset?

     Would any state tolerate a law-giver who decreed that a son or grandson was to be convicted if their father or grandfather had erred?

   • 86 BCE – c. 35 BCE, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Conspiracy of Catiline 52.26:

     deliquere homines adulescentuli per ambitionem

     They are young men who have erred due to their ambition

   • c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.49:^[1]

     Nam sunt quaedam cognata, ut dicunt, id est eiusdem generis, in quibus qui alia specie quam oportet utetur, non minus quam ipso genere permutato deliquerit.

     • 1920 translation by Harold Edgeworth Butler

       For there are some nouns which are cognate, that is to say of the same genus, and he who uses the wrong species in connexion with one of these will be guilty of the same offence as if he were to change the genus.

• “delinquo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “delinquo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• delinquo in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “delinquo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

delinquo

1. first-person singular present indicative of delinquir