deliquium

English

Etymology

From Latin delinquere (“to lack, to fail”).

Noun

deliquium (plural deliquiums)

  1. (physical chemistry) Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air.
  2. (pathology) An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 387:
      If he be locked in a close room, he is afraid of being stifled for want of air, and still carries biscuit, aquavitæ, or some strong waters about him, for fear of deliquiums, or being sick […]
  3. (literary, figuratively) A languid, maudlin mood.
  4. (rare) An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse.

Latin

Noun

dēliquium n (genitive dēliquiī or dēliquī); second declension

  1. want, defect
  2. failure
  3. eclipse

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēliquium dēliquia
Genitive dēliquiī
dēliquī1		 dēliquiōrum
Dative dēliquiō dēliquiīs
Accusative dēliquium dēliquia
Ablative dēliquiō dēliquiīs
Vocative dēliquium dēliquia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References
  • “deliquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • deliquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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