delicto

delicto is a Latin form of delinquo, meaning “fail, do wrong, offend; (delictum) offense, fault”.

It can also be a form of delictum, “fault, offense, crime”. It is the dative singular neuter noun or perfect passive participle ablative singular neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular masculine.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.4.10: nam maiore commisso delicto igni atque omnibus tormentis necat, leviore de causa auribus desectis aut singulis effossis oculis domum remittit, ut sint reliquis documento et magnitudine poenae perterreant alios.

All forms of delinquo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.