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dele

See also: Dele, déle, dêle, dėlė, dé le, děle, and dələ

English

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Etymology

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From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo (“delete”). Alternatively, a clipping of deleatur.

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dele (third-person singular simple present deles, present participle deleing, simple past and past participle deled)

  1. (printing, usually imperative) To delete.

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dele (plural deles)

  1. (printing) A sign signifying deletion.
    Synonym: deleatur

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *dailjā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-l-. Compare Old English delu (“teat”). More at djalë. Possibly the source of the Illyrian tribe name Dalmatae.

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dele f (plural dele, definite delja, definite plural delet)

  1. sheep
    Synonyms: berr, lukër
  2. ewe

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Declension of dele
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative dele delja dele delet
accusative delen
dative deleje deles deleve deleve
ablative delesh

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Danish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse deila (“to divide, allot”), from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną, cognate of English deal and German teilen. In older Danish, the verb meant "to take to court”. The present verb has been influenced by Middle Low German dēlen (“to divide”).

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dele (imperative del, infinitive at dele, present tense deler, past tense delte, perfect tense har delt)

  1. divide
  2. share
  3. split

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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dele c

  1. indefinite plural of del

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Dutch

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dele

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of delen

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Latin

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dēlē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēleō

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German dele, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ. Doublet of thylle (“thill”).

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Noun

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dele (plural deles)

  1. plank
Descendants
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  • English: deal
  • Scots: deal
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Etymology 2

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dele

  1. Alternative form of del (“amount, part”)
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
      And so they alle bare hym vnto the hermytage
      and vnarmed hym
      and layd hym in his bedde
      & euer more his wound bledde pytously
      but he stered no lymme of hym
      Thenne the knyghte heremyte put a thynge in his nose and a lytel dele of water in his mouthe
      And thenne sir launcelot waked of his swoune
      and thenne the heremyte staunched his bledynge
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 3

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dele

  1. Alternative form of delen

Etymology 4

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dele

  1. Alternative form of devel

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German delen.

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dele (imperative del, present tense deler, passive deles, simple past delte, past participle delt)

  1. to divide
  2. to split
  3. to share

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From Middle Low German delen and Old Norse deila.

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dele (present tense deler, past tense delte, past participle delt, passive infinitive delast, present participle delande, imperative del)

  1. to divide
  2. to split
  3. to share

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Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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dele (feminine dela, masculine plural deles, feminine plural delas)

  2. Contraction of de ele (“of him; his”)
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:dele.

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dele

  1. inflection of delir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

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dele (Cyrillic spelling деле)

  1. third-person plural present of deliti

Spanish

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dele

  1. third-person singular imperative of dar combined with le

Swahili

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Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

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dele class IX (plural dele class X)

  1. a type of coffee pot (pot for coffee)

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dele

  1. dative singular of del
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