Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of dēlinquō (fail, be lacking).

Participle edit

dēlictus (feminine dēlicta, neuter dēlictum); first/second-declension participle

  1. failed, having failed.

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dēlictus dēlicta dēlictum dēlictī dēlictae dēlicta
Genitive dēlictī dēlictae dēlictī dēlictōrum dēlictārum dēlictōrum
Dative dēlictō dēlictō dēlictīs
Accusative dēlictum dēlictam dēlictum dēlictōs dēlictās dēlicta
Ablative dēlictō dēlictā dēlictō dēlictīs
Vocative dēlicte dēlicta dēlictum dēlictī dēlictae dēlicta

References edit

  • delictus 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)
  • delictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti