Word Origin Summary

Dēlinquentia is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• delinquency

  English · borrowed from

• delincuencia

  Spanish · borrowed from

• delinquenza

  Italian · borrowed from

• delinquência

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• delinqüència

  Catalan · borrowed from

• delinkuensi

  Indonesian · derived from

• délinquance

  French · borrowed from

• delincvență

  Romanian · borrowed from

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