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Translingual
Symbol
del
Englisch
Etymology 1
From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta.
Pronunciation
Nomen
del (plural dels)
- (mathematical analysis) The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
- (mathematics) the symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential
Synonyms
See also
Etymology 2
See deal
Nomen
del (plural dels)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Ledebouria_ovatifolia00.jpg/220px-Ledebouria_ovatifolia00.jpg)
Etymology 3
Shortening
Nomen
del
- Abbreviation of delegate.
- Abbreviation of delegation.
Verb
del
- Abbreviation of delete.
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of Latin delineavit
Verb
del
- abbreviation of delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natural history
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
Variant of standard dal.
Verb
del
Asturian
Etymology
From a contraction of the preposition de (“of, from”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).
Contraction
del m
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *döl (whence also Welsh dail), from Proto-Celtic *dolyā. Cognate with Middle Irish duille, from Old Irish duilne, from a variant form *dolnyā; both are from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“blossom”), whence also Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom”), Old English dile (“dill”), and Old Armenian դալար (dalar, “green, fresh”).
Pronunciation
Nomen
del f (singulative delienn)
Burarra
Nomen
del
Catalan
Pronunciation
Contraction
del
Further reading
- “del” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish del, contraction of ‘de el.’
Contraction
del
- (obsolete) of the, from the (only in names with Spanish origins or in phrases with Spanish construct)
Related terms
Chinese
Etymology
From clipping of English delete.
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: di6
- Yale: dih
- Cantonese Pinyin: di6
- Guangdong Romanization: di6
- Sinological IPA (key): /tiː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
del
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *döl, from Proto-Celtic *dolyā, from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰelh₁- (“blossom”). Cognate with Breton del, Welsh dail.
Nomen
del m (singulative delen)
Derived terms
- del bleujyow (“flower petals”)
Mutation
Dänisch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon del. The word has replaced the native noun Old Danish deld, Old Norse deild, from Proto-Germanic *dailiþō.
Nomen
del c (singular definite delen, plural indefinite dele)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
del
- imperative of dele
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch delle (“valley; dune valley”), from Old Dutch della (“valley; (geography) depression; dune valley”), from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate with English dell.
Nomen
del n (plural dellen, diminutive delletje n)
- dune valley
- dell, small depression in a landscape
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch dille. Further origin uncertain; perhaps related to the verb dillen (“to chatter”). Compare English dell.
Nomen
del f (plural dellen, diminutive delletje n)
Galician
Etymology
From contraction of preposition de (“of, from”) + third-person masculine singular pronoun el (“he, him, it”).
Pronunciation
Contraction
del m (feminine dela, masculine plural deles, feminine plural delas)
Further reading
- “del”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Ido
Preposition
del
Usage notes
This is optional, you can also use de l'...
Interlingua
Preposition
del
Istriot
Contraction
del
- Contraction of de (“of”) + el (“the”)
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:
- Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;
- You are the almond of my heart;
Italian
Etymology
di (preposition) + il (article)
Contraction
del
- Contraction of di il; some, of the, from the (+ a masculine noun in singular).
- L'architetto del ristorante parla col cuoco. ― The architect of the restaurant talks with the cook.
See also
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English dǣl.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Nomen
del (plural deles)
- A part, proportion or section of something.
- The part or proportion that one is assigned or entitled to.
- One's fate, inevitability or luck; what is ordained to occur.
- A quantity or number of something; a deal or lot.
- Intensity, severity, degree.
- (often used in negations) A thing; a small amount.
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “dēl, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.
Etymology 2
Nomen
del
- Alternative form of delle (“dell”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz (“part, portion, deal”).
Nomen
del m (definite singular delen, indefinite plural deler, definite plural delene)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
del
- imperative of dele
References
- “del” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą, *dailiz (“part, portion, deal”).
Pronunciation
Nomen
del m (definite singular delen, indefinite plural delar, definite plural delane)
Derived terms
References
- “del” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Contraction
del
Old French
Alternative forms
Contraction
del
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *daili.
Pronunciation
Nomen
dēl m
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | dēl | dēlos |
accusative | dēl | dēlos |
genitive | dēles | dēlō |
dative | dēle | dēlum |
instrumental | — | — |
Romani
Etymology 1
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀤𑀺 (dedi), from Sanskrit ददाति (dadāti), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti.
Verb
del
- to give
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Nomen
del m (accusative devles, nominative plural devla, accusative plural devlen)
- Alternative form of devel (“god”)
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dádāti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 351
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “del¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 67-69
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “del²”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 69
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “d/el, -inǎs ≈ -ias²³”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 122
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o dev/el¹, -les m. -la, -len = o de/l²³, -vles m. -vla, -vlen”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 124
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dělъ.
Pronunciation
Nomen
dẹ̄l or dẹ̄ł m inan
Inflection
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | dél | ||
gen. sing. | déla | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
dél | déla | déli |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
déla | délov | délov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
délu | déloma | délom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
dél | déla | déle |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
délu | délih | délih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
délom | déloma | déli |
Further reading
- “del”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish
Alternative forms
- d'el (obsolete)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Contraction
del
See also
Further reading
- “del”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “del” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish del, from Middle Low German dēl, deil, from Old Saxon dēl.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Nomen
del c
Declension
Declension of del | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | del | delen | delar | delarna |
Genitive | dels | delens | delars | delarnas |
See also
Further reading
- del in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
Volapük
Nomen
del (nominative plural dels)
- day
- 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: VI:
- Klu no kudolsöd tefü odel! Odel jäfikonös me kuds oka it! Del alik labon saidiko töbis lönik oka.
- So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Declension
Derived terms
- adel
- a del
- adelo
- adelo gödiko
- aldelafif
- aposzedel
- aposzedelik
- aposzedelo
- ädel
- ädelik
- ädelo
- ädelo gödiko
- äposzedelo
- delagased
- delagasedem
- delajit
- delaprim
- delaprimik
- delaprimo
- delavomajit
- deled
- deli kinid mula labobs-li adelo?
- dödel
- fidön göliko pos zedel
- fitadel
- florüpadel
- florüpadelalunik
- florüpadelo
- fluküpadel
- fluküpadelalunik
- fluküpadelo
- foldegdelacunüp
- foldegdelapönidüp
- foldegdelik
- fridel
- hitüpadel
- hitüpadelalunik
- hitüpadelo
- jabatadel
- jabatadelik
- jabatadelo
- jafadel
- jafadelem
- jafadelik
- jafadelo
- jeifadel
- malarafif aldelik
- mäldelik
- motedadel
- mudel
- nifüpadel
- nifüpadelalunik
- odel
- odelik
- odelo
- poszedel
- poszedelik
- poszedelo
- pönidüp foldegdelik (karen)
- sis ädel
- sudel
- tudel
- tumdelik
- ün del semik
- vedel
- veldelik
- zädel
- zäladel
- zedel
- zehitüpadel
Welsh
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
del (feminine singular del, plural del, equative deled, comparative delach, superlative delaf)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
del | ddel | nel | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
West Frisian
Pronunciation
Adverb
del
Further reading
- “del”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Etymology 1
From Middle English telle, tille, from Old English til.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Preposition
del
- until
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Del Ich.
- Until I.
- 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:
- Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.
- He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.
Etymology 2
From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan, from Proto-West Germanic *delban.
Pronunciation
Verb
del (present participle delleen, simple past dellt)
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33 & 34
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