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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēlinquō (“fail, be lacking”).
Participle
dēlictus (feminine dēlicta, neuter dēlictum); first/second-declension participle
- failed, having failed.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti