reliquus

Latin

Etymology

From *relikuwos. See relinquo.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.li.kʷus/, [ˈrɛlʲɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.li.kwus/, [ˈrɛːlikwus]

Adjective

reliquus (feminine reliqua, neuter reliquum); first/second-declension adjective

1. remaining
2. surviving

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	reliquus	reliqua	reliquum		reliquī	reliquae	reliqua
genitive	reliquī	reliquae	reliquī		reliquōrum	reliquārum	reliquōrum
dative	reliquō	reliquae	reliquō		reliquīs
accusative	reliquum	reliquam	reliquum		reliquōs	reliquās	reliqua
ablative	reliquō	reliquā	reliquō		reliquīs
vocative	relique	reliqua	reliquum		reliquī	reliquae	reliqua

Descendants

• French: relique
• Spanish: reliquia

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^[1], 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)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN