In flagrante delicto (), is used to refer to citizen's arrest, and is listed under Section 213 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as such. Aside from the legal meaning, the Latin term is often used colloquially as a dysphemism for someone's being caught in the midst of sexual activity. In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto (Latin: "in blazing offence"), or simply in flagrante, a legal term, indicates that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare ). The colloquial "caught " or "caught rapid" are English equivalents. The phrase combines the present active participle "flagrāns" (flaming or
Bias against left-handed people as well as "law" and the legal sense of "right", while "gauche" means "left" and is also a synonym of "maladroit", literally "not right", meaning "clumsy". Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German have similar constructs. The Spanish term "diestro" and the Italian term "destro" mean both "right-handed" and "skillful". The contemporary Italian word "sinistra" has both meanings of sinister and left (the masculine adjective for sinister being "sinistro"), and "maldestro" means "clumsy". The Spanish "siniestra" has both, too, although the "left" meaning is less common and is usually expressed by "izquierda", a Basque word that made its way into Portuguese as