delinquir

Borrowed from Latin dēlinquere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.liŋˈki]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.liŋˈkiɾ]
• Homophone: delinquí
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

delinquir (first-person singular present delinqueixo, first-person singular preterite delinquí, past participle delinquit)

1. (intransitive) to commit a crime

• delinqüència
• delinqüent

• “delinquir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “delinquir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “delinquir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “delinquir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• delinqüir (pre-1990 spelling)

Borrowed from Latin dēlinquere, with change of conjugation.

• Hyphenation: de‧lin‧quir

delinquir (first-person singular present (Brazilian Portuguese) delínquo or (European Portuguese) delinquo, first-person singular preterite delinqui, past participle delinquido)

1. (intransitive) to commit a crime

Borrowed from Latin dēlinquere.

• IPA^(key): /delinˈkiɾ/ [d̪e.lĩŋˈkiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: de‧lin‧quir

delinquir (first-person singular present delinco, first-person singular preterite delinquí, past participle delinquido)

1. (intransitive) to commit a crime
2. (intransitive) to be delinquent

• “delinquir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024