Dictionary

delict en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdiːlɪkt/
• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɪˈlɪkt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēlīctum (“fault”), neuter of dēlīctus, past participle of delinquo (“to fail; to be lacking”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

Meanings

1. (qualifier:civil law; Scots law; civil law; Scots law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
2. (figuratively) Synonym of misdeed, any wrongful act.
   • Since Mr Ernest Bevin made his plea a generation ago for more coal to give weight to his foreign policy our economic decline has been such as to sap the foundations of our diplomacy. Conversely, I believe that, during the same period, much of our foreign policy has been such as to contribute to that decline. It is to the interaction of these delicts, spanning my time in the foreign service, that this valedictory despatch is devoted. 1979 March 31, Nicholas Henderson, Britain's Decline: Its Causes and Consequences:
3. The branch of law dealing in delicts.

Forms

Deriveds

quasi-delict · delictual

Relateds

in flagrant delict · corpus delicti

Synonyms

any wrongful act · misdemeanor · transgression · tort · misdeed · tortfeasance

Translations (8)

fi delikti (law: wrongful act) · id delik (law: wrongful act) · bg нарушение на закона (law: wrongful act) · pl delikt (law: wrongful act) · mk пре́кршок (law: wrongful act) · sh delikt (law: wrongful act) · mk прекршу́вање на за́конот (law: wrongful act) · mk пре́стап (law: wrongful act)