delicia

See also: delícia

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain whether from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”), as in liqueō, or Proto-Italic *lakiō or *lakʷiō (“I draw, pull”), so dē- +‎ laciō ("to draw away, drain"), of which the base verb is a hapax and possibly a nonce word. The latter root has plenty internal, but no certain external cognates; even so, De Vaan 2008 prefers this on semantic grounds, and k over kʷ due to its absence in the many cognates - but compare dēliquō ~ dēlicō (“I clear off, strain”) from leikʷ-.

Cognate to Latin sublica (“wooden stake or pile”), colliciae (“gutter”), ēlix (“furrow in a com field for draining off water”), ēliciō (“I coax, draw forth”), illecebra (“enticement”), dēliciae (“delight”). Connection with laqueus (“loop, rope snare”) uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈli.ki.a/, [d̪eːˈlʲɪkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈli.t͡ʃi.a/, [d̪eˈliːt͡ʃiä]

Noun

dēlicia f (genitive dēliciae); first declension

1. corner beam supporting a section of an outward-sloping roof
   • c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.3.2:

     Displuviāta autem sunt, in quibus dēliciae arcam sustinentēs stīllicidia reiciunt

     Displuviate courtyards are those in which the rafters which support the frame of the opening carry the gutters down

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlicia	dēliciae
Genitive	dēliciae	dēliciārum
Dative	dēliciae	dēliciīs
Accusative	dēliciam	dēliciās
Ablative	dēliciā	dēliciīs
Vocative	dēlicia	dēliciae

Derived terms

• dēliciāris
• dēliciātus

Noun

dēlicia f (genitive dēliciae); first declension

1. (very rare) Alternative form of dēliciae (“delight”)
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Carmina 3.1:

     Et Critiās mea dēlicia est

     And Critias is my darling

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “laciō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321

Further reading

• “delicia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• delicia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• delicia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
    
  • to be some one's favourite: in amore et deliciis esse alicui (active in deliciis habere aliquem)
    

Portuguese

Verb

delicia

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēliciae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /deˈliθja/ [d̪eˈli.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /deˈlisja/ [d̪eˈli.sja]
• Rhymes: -iθja
• Rhymes: -isja
• Syllabification: de‧li‧cia

Noun

delicia f (plural delicias)

1. delight
2. pleasure

Derived terms

• arroz tres delicias
• delicia turca

 

Related terms

• delicioso

 

Further reading

• “delicia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16