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- Latin · derived fromdēlinquēns
- Late Latin · borrowed fromdēlinquentia
- English todaydelinquency
Borrowed from Late Latin dēlinquentia, derived from Latin dēlinquēns, present participle of dēlinquō (“to transgress, err”). By surface analysis, delinquent + -cy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.