reliquus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *relikuwos, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-. Related to Latin linquō, itself derived from Proto-Italic *linkʷō.

Pronunciation

Adjective

reliquus (feminine reliqua, neuter reliquum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. remaining
  2. surviving

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative reliquus reliqua reliquum reliquī reliquae reliqua
genitive reliquī reliquae reliquī reliquōrum reliquārum reliquōrum
dative reliquō reliquae reliquō reliquīs
accusative reliquum reliquam reliquum reliquōs reliquās reliqua
ablative reliquō reliquā reliquō reliquīs
vocative relique reliqua reliquum reliquī reliquae reliqua

Descendants

  • French: relique
  • Spanish: reliquia

References

  • “reliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “reliquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "reliquus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • reliquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the rest of one's life: quod reliquum est vitae
    • (ambiguous) to pass on: ad reliqua pergamus, progrediamur
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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