delecto
Catalan edit
Verb edit
delecto
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
delecto (plural delectos)
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deˈlek.to/, [d̪ɛˈɫ̪ɛkt̪ɔ]
- (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
Conjugation edit
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)