delectatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēlectō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.lekˈtaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːɫ̪ɛkˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.lekˈtat.t͡si.o/, [d̪elekˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēlectātiō f (genitive dēlectātiōnis); third declension

1. delight, pleasure, amusement

   Synonyms: gaudium, dēlicium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās, frūctus

   Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlectātiō	dēlectātiōnēs
Genitive	dēlectātiōnis	dēlectātiōnum
Dative	dēlectātiōnī	dēlectātiōnibus
Accusative	dēlectātiōnem	dēlectātiōnēs
Ablative	dēlectātiōne	dēlectātiōnibus
Vocative	dēlectātiō	dēlectātiōnēs

Descendants

• French: délectation
• Italian: dilettazione
• Portuguese: deleitação
• Romanian: delectație
• Spanish: delectación

References

• “delectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “delectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• delectatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a very charming book: liber plenus delectationis