delecto
Latin
Verb
dēlectō (present infinitive dēlectāre, perfect active dēlectāvī, supine dēlectātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: delir, delectar
- Corsican: dilettà
- English: delight
- Extremaduran: deleitar
- French: délecter
- Galician: deleitar
- Italian: dilettare, deliziare
- Ligurian: deliçiâ
- Middle English: deliten
- Middle French: deliter
- Occitan: deleichar
- Old French: delitier, deliter
- Old Portuguese: deleitar
- Old Spanish: deleitar
- Piedmontese: dileté
- Portuguese: deleitar
- Spanish: deleitar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
dēlectō
References
- 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, 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)
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