delict

The story

1. Latin · borrowed fromdēlīctum“fault”
2. English todaydelict

Borrowed from Latin dēlīctum (“fault”), neuter of dēlīctus, past participle of delinquo (“to fail; to be lacking”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• from the early 16th c. A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.