Latin

Verb

relinquō ‎(present infinitive relinquere, perfect active relīquī, supine relictum); third conjugation

1. I abandon, I relinquish, I leave (behind)

Inflection

Derived terms

• nuces relinquere

Descendants

• English: relinquish

References

• relinquo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• relinquo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “relinquo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to overtake and pass some one: post se relinquere aliquem
    
  • a man loses his senses, becomes unconscious: animus relinquit aliquem
    
  • to leave a great reputation behind one: magnam sui famam relinquere
    
  • to leave a thing undecided: aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere (Cael. 20. 48)
    
  • to leave a thing undecided: aliquid dubium, incertum relinquere
    
  • to leave a point undecided: in controversia relinquere aliquid
    
  • to follow the standards: signa sequi (opp. a signis discedere, signa relinquere)
    
  • to leave troops to guard the camp: praesidio castris milites relinquere
    
  • to give up an assault, a siege: oppugnationem, obsidionem relinquere
    
  • let us leave that undecided: hoc in medio relinquamus
    
  • (ambiguous) something has been left as a legacy by some one: hereditate aliquid relictum est ab aliquo