delicium
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From dēlicere (“to entice, to snare; to delight”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from dē- + lacere (“to entice, to snare”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, to pull”), with no known cognates in any other Indo-European languages.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈli.ki.um/, [d̪eːˈlʲɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈli.t͡ʃi.um/, [d̪eˈliːt͡ʃium]
Noun edit
dēlicium n (genitive dēliciī or dēlicī); second declension
- delight, pleasure
- Synonyms: gaudium, dēlectātiō, voluptās, laetitia, frūctus, alacritās
- Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium
- darling, pet
- (figuratively) A slave child, customarily kept by the Romans to provide entertainment.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēlicium | dēlicia |
| Genitive | dēliciī dēlicī1 |
dēliciōrum |
| Dative | dēliciō | dēliciīs |
| Accusative | dēlicium | dēlicia |
| Ablative | dēliciō | dēliciīs |
| Vocative | dēlicium | dēlicia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- French: délice
References edit
- “delicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “delicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- delicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.