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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of relinquō (“abandon, relinquish”).
Participle
relictus (feminine relicta, neuter relictum); first/second-declension participle
- abandoned, having been abandoned, forsaken, relinquished, having been relinquished, left behind
- widowed, surviving a deceased person
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “relictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “relictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- relictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) something has been left as a legacy by some one: hereditate aliquid relictum est ab aliquo