Etymology

delinquish

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Today it means: to relinquish Full definition →

English relinquishinflu. ← Latin dēlinquō ← Proto-Italic *linkʷō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*leykʷ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*linékʷti
  8. Proto-Italic*linkʷō
  9. Latinlinquō
  10. Latindēlinquō
  11. Englishrelinquishinflu.
  12. English todaydelinquish

Borrowed from Latin dēlinquō (“to fail, err”) with the addition of -ish. Sense 1 was influenced by the similar verb relinquish.

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