delicatus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deː.liˈkaː.tus/, [deː.lɪˈkaː.tʊs]
Adjective
dēlicātus (feminine dēlicāta, neuter dēlicātum); first/second declension
- alluring, charming, delightful; voluptuous
- soft, tender, delicate
- effeminate, spoilt with indulgence
- fastidious, scrupulous
- (of a person) overly-luxurious, spoiled
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dēlicātus | dēlicāta | dēlicātum | dēlicātī | dēlicātae | dēlicāta | |
| Genitive | dēlicātī | dēlicātae | dēlicātī | dēlicātōrum | dēlicātārum | dēlicātōrum | |
| Dative | dēlicātō | dēlicātae | dēlicātō | dēlicātīs | dēlicātīs | dēlicātīs | |
| Accusative | dēlicātum | dēlicātam | dēlicātum | dēlicātōs | dēlicātās | dēlicāta | |
| Ablative | dēlicātō | dēlicātā | dēlicātō | dēlicātīs | dēlicātīs | dēlicātīs | |
| Vocative | dēlicāte | dēlicāta | dēlicātum | dēlicātī | dēlicātae | dēlicāta | |
Related terms
- dēliciae
- dēliciō
- dēliciolae
- dēliciōsus
- dēlicātior
- dēlicātissimus
Descendants
- Italian: delicato
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: delgáu
- Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Catalan: delgat
- Old Portuguese: delgado
- Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Spanish: delgado
- Sicilian: dilicatu
- Venetian: dełicato, dełicao
- → Catalan: delicat
- → Galician: delicado
- → Middle French: delicat
- → Portuguese: delicado
- → Spanish: delicado
References
- delicatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- delicatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- delicatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- delicatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- delicacies: cibus delicatus
- to live a luxurious and effeminate life: delicate ac molliter vivere
- delicacies: cibus delicatus
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