delecto
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]delecto
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]delecto (plural delectos)
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deːˈlek.toː/, [d̪eːˈɫ̪ɛkt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈlek.to/, [d̪eˈlɛkt̪o]
Etymology 1
[edit]Frequentative of dēliciō, or else from dē- + lactō.
Verb
[edit]dēlectō (present infinitive dēlectāre, perfect active dēlectāvī, supine dēlectātum); first conjugation
- to delight, charm, please (+ accusative the person, who is delighted)
- Synonyms: fruor, congrātulor, exhilarō, iuvō
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of dēlectō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: delitar, → delectar (learned)
- Corsican: dilettà
- English: delight
- Extremaduran: deleitar
- Galician: deleitar
- Italian: dilettare
- Ligurian: deliçiâ
- Middle English: deliten
- Occitan: deleichar
- Old French: delitier, deliter
- Old Galician-Portuguese: deleitar
- Portuguese: deleitar
- Old Spanish: deleitar
- Spanish: deleitar
- Piedmontese: dileté
- Romanian: delecta
- → Polish: delektować
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
[edit]dēlēctō
References
[edit]- “delecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “delecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- delecto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have no taste for the fine arts: abhorrere ab artibus (opp. delectari artibus)
- to take pleasure in a thing: delectari aliqua re
- to have no taste for the fine arts: abhorrere ab artibus (opp. delectari artibus)
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- Interlingua nouns
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- Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -āv-
- Latin non-lemma forms
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- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook