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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin deliquium, from Latin delinquere (“to lack, to fail”).
Noun
deliquium (plural deliquiums)
- (physical chemistry) Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air.
- (pathology) An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 387:If he be locked in a close room, he is afraid of being stifled for want of air, and still carries biscuit, aquavitæ, or some strong waters about him, for fear of deliquiums, or being sick […]
- (literary, figuratively) A languid, maudlin mood.
- (rare) An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse.
Latin
Noun
dēliquium n (genitive dēliquiī or dēliquī); second declension
- want, defect
- failure
- eclipse
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “deliquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- deliquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.