FromProto-Italic*linkʷō, fromProto-Indo-European*linékʷti ~ *linkʷénti, from the root*leykʷ-. Cognate toSanskritरिणक्ति(riṇákti),Ancient Greekλείπω(leípō). See alsoEnglishloan,lend.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈlin.kʷoː/,[ˈlʲɪŋkʷoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈlin.kwo/,[ˈliŋkwo]

linquō (present infinitivelinquere,perfect activelīquī,supinelictum);third conjugation

1. toleave,quit,forsake,depart from

   Synonyms:relinquō,dēserō,omittō,dēdō,concēdō,dēcēdō,dēstituō,dēficiō,cēdō,dēsinō,addīcō,neglegō,remittō,permittō,tribuō

   animus (oranima)linquit/animuslinquitaliquem/animamlinquo/animolinquor ―tofaint, toswoon

   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti6.339–340:

     forte senex, quō vectus erat, Sīlēnus asellum
     līquerat ad rīpās lene sonantis aquae.

     By chance the old man Silenushad left the donkey on which he’d ridden near the banks of a gently murmuring stream.
     (SeeSilenus.)

   • De vita Caesarum,Suetonius Vita divi Iuli, 45:

     animolinqui [...]solebat

     he was accustomed to suddenfainting fits

• Third conjugation,

• relinquō
• dēlinquō
• derelinquo

• “linquo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “linquo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• linquo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

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