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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--delate This week's theme: words that appear to be misspellings. delate (di-LAYT) verb tr. 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. X-Bonus It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

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