different between delict vs delice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking; to fail; to transgress”), from d?- + linqu? (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??l?kt/, /?di?l?kt/

Noun

delict (plural delicts)

1. (civil law, Scottish law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. [from the early 16th c.]
2. (law) The branch of law dealing in delicts.

Derived terms

• delictual
• quasi-delict

Translations

See also

• delict on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scots Law#Delict on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• corpus delicti

Anagrams

• Deltic, deltic

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch delict, from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking", "to fail", "to transgress”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??l?kt/, /de??l?kt/
• Hyphenation: de?lict
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

delict n (plural delicten, diminutive delictje n)

1. crime, wrong

Synonyms

• misdrijf

Derived terms

• delictpleger
• plaats delict

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: delik

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin delictum.

Noun

delict n (plural delicte)

1. crime

Declension

See also

• infrac?iune
• crim?

English

Etymology

From Old French delice, from Latin d?licium.

Noun

delice (plural delices)

1. (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]

Anagrams

• ceiled, cieled, decile