delite
Latin edit
Participle edit
dēlite
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French delit, from the verb deliter.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
delite (plural delites)
- Delightfulness; a feeling of joy or mirth, especially one that is sexual:
- Enjoyability or delightfulness considered in the abstract or in general.
- One's experiencing of delight; a delightful time or place.
- A spiritual or religious feeling of gratitude, joy, and elation.
- A feeling of delightfulness due to a certain activity or behaviour.
- A want or wish; something that one would like to do.
- A behaviour that induces delightfulness; a delight or pleasure:
- A spiritual or religious pleasure, comfort, or belief.
- Something done as fun, recreation, or entertainment.
- Copulation; sexual intercourse or congress.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: delight (influenced by light)
- Scots: delite, delicht (influenced by licht)
- Yola: deligkt (influenced by lhygt)
References edit
- “dēlīt(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-26.
Adjective edit
delite
References edit
- “dēlīte, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-26.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
delite
- Alternative form of deliten
Serbo-Croatian edit
Verb edit
delite (Cyrillic spelling делите)
- inflection of deliti: