derelictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dērelinquō.

Participle

dērelictus (feminine dērelicta, neuter dērelictum); first/second-declension participle

1. discarded, forsaken
2. abandoned, deserted
3. bequeathed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dērelictus	dērelicta	dērelictum		dērelictī	dērelictae	dērelicta
genitive	dērelictī	dērelictae	dērelictī		dērelictōrum	dērelictārum	dērelictōrum
dative	dērelictō	dērelictae	dērelictō		dērelictīs
accusative	dērelictum	dērelictam	dērelictum		dērelictōs	dērelictās	dērelicta
ablative	dērelictō	dērelictā	dērelictō		dērelictīs
vocative	dērelicte	dērelicta	dērelictum		dērelictī	dērelictae	dērelicta

Descendants

• Spanish: derelicto, derrelicto

References

• “derelictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “derelictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• derelictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be abandoned by good luck: a fortuna desertum, derelictum esse