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del

See also: Del, dél, dėl, de-l, -del, de l', del., Del., dēļ, děl, and ␡

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

del

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Delaware languages.

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun edit

del (plural dels)

  1. (mathematical analysis) The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
  2. (mathematics) the symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential
Synonyms edit
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Etymology 2 edit

See deal

Noun edit

del (plural dels)

 
Ledebouria ovatifolia as illustrated in "The Flowering Plants of South Africa". Note the signature of M.E. Connell in the bottom left corner. The "del." after her name is short for delineavit, meaning that she was the one who drew the original illustration.
  1. (obsolete) a part, portion

Etymology 3 edit

Shortening

Noun edit

del

  1. Abbreviation of delegate.
  2. Abbreviation of delegation.

Verb edit

del

  1. Abbreviation of delete.

Etymology 4 edit

Abbreviation of Latin delineavit

Verb edit

del

  1. abbreviation of delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natural history

Anagrams edit

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Variant of standard dal.

Verb edit

del

  1. to exit
  2. to go out

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From a contraction of the preposition de (“of, from”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

Contraction edit

del m

  1. of the, from the

Breton edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Brythonic *döl (whence also Welsh dail), from Proto-Celtic *dolyā. Cognate with Middle Irish duille, from Old Irish duilne, from a variant form *dolnyā; both are from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“blossom”), whence also Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom”), Old English dile (“dill”), and Old Armenian դալար (dalar, “green, fresh”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

del f (singulative delienn)

  1. foliage, leaves

Burarra edit

Noun edit

del

  1. spotted harrier, swamp harrier
  2. peregrine falcon, brown falcon
  3. Australian kestrel

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Contraction edit

del

  1. Contraction of the preposition de and the article el. of the

Further reading edit

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish del, contraction of ‘de el.’

Contraction edit

del

  1. (obsolete) of the, from the (only in names with Spanish origins or in phrases with Spanish construct)

Related terms edit

Chinese edit

Etymology edit

From clipping of English delete.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

del

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to delete

Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon del. The word has replaced the native noun Old Danish deld, Old Norse deild, from Proto-Germanic *dailiþō.

Noun edit

del c (singular definite delen, plural indefinite dele)

  1. part, portion
  2. proportion
  3. share, portion
  4. section
Inflection edit
Declension of del
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative del delen dele delene
genitive dels delens deles delenes

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

del

  1. imperative of dele

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch delle (“valley; dune valley”), from Old Dutch della (“valley; (geography) depression; dune valley”), from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate with English dell.

Noun edit

del n (plural dellen, diminutive delletje n)

  1. dune valley
  2. dell, small depression in a landscape
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Dutch dille. Further origin uncertain; perhaps related to the verb dillen (“to chatter”). Compare English dell.

Noun edit

del f (plural dellen, diminutive delletje n)

  1. trollop, floozie

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From contraction of preposition de (“of, from”) + third-person masculine singular pronoun el (“he, him, it”).

Pronunciation edit

Contraction edit

del m (feminine dela, masculine plural deles, feminine plural delas)

  1. of him, of it, from him, from it

Further reading edit

Ido edit

Preposition edit

del

  1. Contraction of de la (“from the”).

Usage notes edit

This is optional, you can also use de l'...

Interlingua edit

Preposition edit

del

  1. Contraction of de le (“of the”).

Istriot edit

Contraction edit

del

  1. Contraction of de (“of”) + el (“the”)
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:
      Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;
      You are the almond of my heart;

Italian edit

Etymology edit

di (preposition) +‎ il (article)

Contraction edit

del

  1. Contraction of di il; some, of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular).
    L'architetto del ristorante parla col cuoco. ― The architect of the restaurant talks with the cook.

See also edit

di § Usage notes

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English dǣl.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

del (plural deles)

  1. A part, proportion or section of something.
  2. The part or proportion that one is assigned or entitled to.
  3. One's fate, inevitability or luck; what is ordained to occur.
  4. A quantity or number of something; a deal or lot.
  5. Intensity, severity, degree.
  6. (often used in negations) A thing; a small amount.
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
  • English: deal
  • Scots: dele
  • Yola: daal
References edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

del

  1. Alternative form of delle (“dell”)

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz (“part, portion, deal”).

Noun edit

del m (definite singular delen, indefinite plural deler, definite plural delene)

  1. part, portion, share
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

del

  1. imperative of dele

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz (“part, portion, deal”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

del m (definite singular delen, indefinite plural delar, definite plural delane)

  1. part, portion, share
    Synonym: lut

Derived terms edit

References edit

Occitan edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio (Languedocien)(file)

Contraction edit

del

  1. Contraction of de lo.

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

Contraction edit

del

  1. contraction of de + le (of the)

Old Saxon edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *daili.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dēl m

  1. part, share, portion
  2. unit, word

Declension edit

Declension of dēl (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative dēl dēlos
accusative dēl dēlos
genitive dēles dēlō
dative dēle dēlum
instrumental — —


Romani edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀤𑀺 (dedi), from Sanskrit ददाति (dadāti), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti.

Verb edit

del

  1. to give
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

del m (accusative devles, nominative plural devla, accusative plural devlen)

  1. Alternative form of devel (“god”)

References edit

  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dádāti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 351
  • Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “del¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 67-69
  • Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “del²”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 69
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “d/el, -inǎs ≈ -ias²³”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 122
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o dev/el¹, -les m. -la, -len = o de/l²³, -vles m. -vla, -vlen”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 124

Slovene edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dèːl/, /déːl/, /dèːʋ/, /déːʋ/

Noun edit

dẹ̄l or dẹ̄ł m inan

  1. part

Inflection edit

 
 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. dél
gen. sing. déla
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		dél déla déli
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		déla délov délov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		délu déloma délom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		dél déla déle
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		délu délih délih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		délom déloma déli

Further reading edit

  • “del”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /del/ [d̪el]
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: del

Contraction edit

del

  1. of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular).

See also edit

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish del, from Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

del c

  1. part (of a whole); share

Declension edit

Declension of del 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative del delen delar delarna
Genitive dels delens delars delarnas

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Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Volapük edit

Noun edit

del (nominative plural dels)

  1. day

Declension edit

declension of del
singular plural
nominative del dels
genitive dela delas
dative dele deles
accusative deli delis
vocative 1 o del! o dels!
predicative 2 delu delus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms edit

Welsh edit

Etymology edit

Related to delw (“image”)[1]

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

del (feminine singular del, plural del, equative deled, comparative delach, superlative delaf)

  1. pretty

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
del ddel nel unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “del”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian edit

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

del

  1. down

Further reading edit

  • “del”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English telle, tille, from Old English til.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dɛɫ/, /tɛɫ/, /tɪɫ/

Preposition edit

del

  1. until
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Del Ich.
      Until I.
    • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:
      Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.
      He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan, from Proto-West Germanic *delban.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

del (present participle delleen, simple past dellt)

  1. to dig

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33 & 34
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