The corpus record — Latin

derelinquo

derelinquo · v. a

to forsake wholly, to abandon, desert

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Where it lives

Adversus Judaeos Liber 10 · 8.91/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
Adversus Praxean 6 · 4.06/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Gordiani Tres 2 · 3.6/10k
Tyranni Triginta 2 · 3.04/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 12 · 2.74/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-rĕlinquo — Lewis & Short

dē-rĕlinquo, līqui, lictum, 3, v. a.

I In the class. lang., to forsake wholly, to abandon, desert (good prose): cf.: Ti. Gracchum a Q. Tuberone derelictum videbamus, Cic. Lael. 11, 37: ut aratores agros latos ac fertiles desererent totasque arationes derelinquerent, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 51, § 120: serere aliquid in inculto et derelicto solo, id. Brut. 4, 16: naves ab aestu derelictae, * Caes. B. G. 3, 13 fin.: castra, Liv. 39, 50, 5; cf. 37, 8, 5; 10, 17, 5: in arce praesidium dereliquit, Curt. 9, 4: perditi atque ab omni non modo fortuna, verum etiam spe derelicti, Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 25; cf.: ut me quasi pro derelicta sis habiturus, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 14; Cic. Att. 8, 1: communem causam (with deserere), Cic. Caecin. 35 fin.: desertarum derelictarumque rerum patrocinium suscipere, id. N. D. 1, 5, 11: Dominum, Vulg. 1 Reg. 12, 10 et saep.—

2 To leave behind: in qua (arce) praesidium dereliquit, Curt. 9, 4, 8: filium quem privatum dereliquerat, Sall. J. 5 fin.; Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 12.—

II In late Lat., to leave behind, to bequeath: libros de gente Romana conscriptos, Arn. 5, p. 161: derelictum magnum aes alienum, Hier. Ep. 108, 30.

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