delicatus

Latin

Etymology

From dēliciae, from dēliciō, from dē + laciō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deː.liˈkaː.tus/, [d̪eːlʲɪˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.liˈka.tus/, [d̪eliˈkäːt̪us]

Adjective

dēlicātus (feminine dēlicāta, neuter dēlicātum, comparative dēlicātior, superlative dēlicātissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. alluring, charming, delightful; voluptuous
2. soft, tender, delicate
3. effeminate, spoilt with indulgence
4. fastidious, scrupulous
5. (of a person) overly-luxurious, spoiled

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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		dēlicātō		dēlicātīs
Accusative	dēlicātum	dēlicātam	dēlicātum		dēlicātōs	dēlicātās	dēlicāta
Ablative	dēlicātō	dēlicātā	dēlicātō		dēlicātīs
Vocative	dēlicāte	dēlicāta	dēlicātum		dēlicātī	dēlicātae	dēlicāta

Related terms

• dēliciae
• dēliciō
• dēliciolae
• dēliciōsus
• dēlicātior
• dēlicātissimus

Descendants

• Italian: delicato
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: delgáu
• Old French:
  • Old French: delïé (from delicatus)
    • French: délié
  • Old French: delgié, dogié (from delicatus)
    • French: dougé (archaic), deugé (dialectal or archaic, Normandy)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: delgado
  • Galician: delgado
  • Portuguese: delgado
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: delgat
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: delgado
• Piedmontese: dlicà
• Sicilian: dilicatu
• Venetian: dełicato, dełicao
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: delicat
  • → Galician: delicado
  • → English: delicate
  • → Middle French: delicat
    • French: délicat (see there for further descendants)
  • → 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• delicatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • delicacies: cibus delicatus
    
  • to live a luxurious and effeminate life: delicate ac molliter vivere