déliter
French, verb/de.li.te/
déliter is a French verb meaning “to split and crumble (of stratified rock)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poser une pierre en délit”.
What does déliter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to split and crumble (of stratified rock)
- 2
to disintegrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poser une pierre en délit. 2. Séparer une pierre dans le sens du lit de stratification. 3. Détacher les vers à soie de leur substrat, de leur litière. 4. Effriter, dégrader.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of déliter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- délitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- délité participle past
- délite first-person indicative present
- délites indicative present second-person
- délitons first-person indicative plural
- délitez indicative plural present
- délitent indicative plural present
- délitais first-person imperfect indicative
- délitait imperfect indicative singular
- délitions first-person imperfect indicative
- délitiez imperfect indicative plural
- délitaient imperfect indicative plural
- délitai first-person historic indicative
- délitas historic indicative past
- délita historic indicative past
- délitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déliter?
- /de.li.te/
- \de.li.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is déliter in French?
déliter appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).