neglectus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛˈɡɫeːk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [neˈɡlɛk.tus]

Perfect passive participle of neglegō (“to disregard, neglect”).

neglēctus (feminine neglēcta, neuter neglēctum); first/second-declension participle

1. neglected, having been neglected; ignored, having been ignored; overlooked, having been overlooked, passed over, having been passed over
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.518:

     neglēctus dominō pauca ferēbat ager.

     The field, having been neglected by its master, was producing few [crops].

2. slighted, having been slighted; disregarded, having been disregarded; despised, having been despised; condemned, having been condemned

First/second-declension adjective.

From neglegō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

neglēctus m (genitive neglēctūs); fourth declension

1. a neglecting
2. neglect

Fourth-declension noun.

• English: neglect
• Italian: negetta (“misery”) (Marchigiano)
• Occitan: nalech (“mistake”)
• Old Italian: neghietto ⇒ neghiettire
  • ⇒ Italian: neghittoso

• “neglectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “neglectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “neglectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • scholarship, culture, literature is at a low ebb: litterae iacent, neglectae iacent
    
  • philosophy is neglected, at low ebb: philosophia (neglecta) iacet (vid. sect. VII. 1, note iacēre...)
    
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “nĕglēctus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 435
• http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/index.php?vox=038776.htm