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Latin
Etymology
From *relikuwos. See relinquo.
Pronunciation
Adjective
reliquus (feminine reliqua, neuter reliquum); first/second-declension adjective
- remaining
- surviving
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “reliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reliquus 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)
- reliquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the rest of one's life: quod reliquum est vitae
- (ambiguous) to pass on: ad reliqua pergamus, progrediamur
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN