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delict

Pronunciation: /dɪˈlɪkt/

The English word “delict” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
  2. Synonym of misdeed, any wrongful act.
  3. The branch of law dealing in delicts.

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”).

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