relict
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
geography
geology
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English relicte (“widow”), from Middle French relicte (“widow”), from Late Latin relicta (“widow”), from Latin relictus, past participle of relinquō (“to abandon, to relinquish, to leave (behind)”), from re- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”). Doublet of relic, derelict, and relinquish.
Inflected forms:
form: relicts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
formal
examples: Upon which the Chancellor, by way of note said, 'it is suggested, that there is a relict of the deceased, married to another man, who has joined her in a power of attorney to authorize the sale of her interest, […]'
But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.
gloss: Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: […] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]
The species may be a relict of former stages of historical vegetation and landscape development resulting from past climate changes (glacial and post- glacial periods).
gloss: Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: Dark rims around the pillows are caused by glaucophane enrichment, possibly a relict of a primary interaction between basalt and seawater, causing Na- enrichment in the original glass crust of the pillows.
gloss: Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: A small number of linguists believe that Cimbrian is not an Austro-Bavarian dialect but a relict of Lombardic.
gloss: Surviving, remaining.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That is a relict; pertaining to a relict.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the lakes and in the streams were species of fish not known elsewhere on earth and birds and lizards and other forms of life as well all long relict here for the desert stretched away on every side.
Related words: delict
delinquency
delinquent
derelict
relic
relinquish
reliquary
Derived words: pedorelict
relictual
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: вдовица
roman: vdovica
lang: Czech
word: reliikt
lang: Danish
word: relikt
lang: Danish
word: levn
lang: Dutch
word: overblijfsel
lang: Dutch
word: relict
lang: Finnish
word: pyhäinjäännös
lang: Greek
word: λείψανο
roman: leípsano
lang: Macedonian
word: рели́кт
roman: relíkt
lang: Macedonian
word: о́станка
roman: óstanka
lang: Macedonian
word: вдо́вица
roman: vdóvica
lang: Polish
word: relikt
lang: Swedish
word: relikt