The flashcard defines "delate" as a verb meaning to report, denounce, or accuse someone of an offense. It also provides the word's origin from Latin and an example sentence.
verb<br /><div>To report (an offense), denounce, or accuse.</div><div><br /></div><div>[From Latin delatus, past participle of deferre (to bring down, accuse, or report), from de- + ferre (to bear), which is ultimately from the Indo-European root bher- (to carry, to bear children) that gave birth to words such as basket, suffer, fertile, burden, bring, bear, offer, prefer, and birth.]</div><div><br /></div><div>"But how would the papal spies, who were present in every audience, delate him [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli]?" - Thomas Cahill; Pope John XXIII (biography); Viking; 2002.</div>
| Front | delate \dih-LAYT\ |
|---|---|
| Back | verb To report (an offense), denounce, or accuse. [From Latin delatus, past participle of deferre (to bring down, accuse, or report), from de- + ferre (to bear), which is ultimately from the Indo-European root bher- (to carry, to bear children) that gave birth to words such as basket, suffer, fertile, burden, bring, bear, offer, prefer, and birth.] "But how would the papal spies, who were present in every audience, delate him [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli]?" - Thomas Cahill; Pope John XXIII (biography); Viking; 2002. |
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