linquo

From Proto-Italic *linkʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *linékʷti ~ *linkʷénti, from the root *leykʷ-. Cognate to Sanskrit रिणक्ति (riṇákti), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō). See also English loan, lend.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlɪŋ.kʷoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliŋ.kʷo]

linquō (present infinitive linquere, perfect active līquī, supine lictum); third conjugation

1. to leave, quit, forsake, depart from

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

   animus (or anima) linquit/animus linquit aliquem/animam linquo/animo linquor ― to faint, to swoon

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.339–340:

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

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

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

     animo linqui [...] solebat

     he was accustomed to sudden fainting fits

• relinquō
• dēlinquō
• dērelinquō

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