delice
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
delice (plural delices)
- (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]
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Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
delice (third-person singular simple present delices, present participle delicing, simple past and past participle deliced)
- (transitive) To rid of lice.
- Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.
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Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دلیجه (delice),[1][2] from دلی (deli) or دلو (delu),[3] equivalent to deli (“crazy, mad, insane”) + -ce.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
delice
- Behaving excessively, a little crazy.
Adverb edit
delice
- insanely, madly
- Synonyms: delicesine, deli gibi, çılgınca
Noun edit
delice (definite accusative deliceyi, plural deliceler)
- A wild plant of the Poaceae family with poisonous seeds; Lolium temulentum, darnel, false wheat.
- An olive tree that is not grafted.
- (colloquial) A hawk or a sparrow hawk.
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References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلیجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 913
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلیجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “delice”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “delice”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1139