delinquir
Portuguese, verb/de.lĩˈkwi(ʁ)/
delinquir is spelled D-E-L-I-N-Q-U-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Delinquir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to commit a crime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de cometer um crime”.
What does delinquir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to commit a crime
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ato de cometer um crime
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of delinquir
- delínquo Brazil first-person present
- delinquo European error-unknown-tag first-person
- delinqui first-person preterite singular
- delinquido participle past
- delinquires infinitive second-person singular
- delinquirmos first-person infinitive plural
- delinquirdes infinitive plural second-person
- delinquirem infinitive plural third-person
- delinquindo gerund
- delinquidos masculine participle past
- delinquida feminine participle past
- delinquidas feminine participle past
- delínques Brazil indicative present
- delinquis indicative present second-person
- delinqúis indicative present second-person
- delínque Brazil indicative present
- delinqúi indicative present singular
- delinquimos first-person indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce delinquir?
- Brazil /de.lĩˈkwi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.lĩˈkwi(h)]
- /de.lĩˈkwi(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to delinquir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is delinquir in Portuguese?
delinquir appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).