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Latin
Adjective
reliqua
- inflection of reliquus (“remaining, surviving”):
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
reliquā
- ablative feminine singular of reliquus (“remaining, surviving”)
Noun
reliqua n pl (genitive reliquōrum); second declension
- the rest, the remainder (of something that has not been completed yet)
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- Prorogatum et M. Marcello, ut pro consule in Sicilia reliqua belli perficeret eo exercitu quem haberet:
- And the military command of Marcus Marcellus was also extended, so that he could finish the rest of the war in Sicily as proconsul with his army which he held
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
See also
References
- reliqua 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)
- reliqua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to pass on: ad reliqua pergamus, progrediamur