relictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of relinquō (“abandon, relinquish”).

Participle

relictus (feminine relicta, neuter relictum); first/second-declension participle

1. abandoned, having been abandoned, forsaken, relinquished, having been relinquished, left behind
2. widowed, surviving a deceased person

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	relictus	relicta	relictum		relictī	relictae	relicta
genitive	relictī	relictae	relictī		relictōrum	relictārum	relictōrum
dative	relictō	relictae	relictō		relictīs
accusative	relictum	relictam	relictum		relictōs	relictās	relicta
ablative	relictō	relictā	relictō		relictīs
vocative	relicte	relicta	relictum		relictī	relictae	relicta

Descendants

• → English: relict
• Italian: relitto

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) something has been left as a legacy by some one: hereditate aliquid relictum est ab aliquo