delicium

Latin

Alternative forms

• dēlicia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈli.ki.um/, [d̪eːˈlʲɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈli.t͡ʃi.um/, [d̪eˈliːt͡ʃium]

Noun

dēlicium n (genitive dēliciī or dēlicī); second declension

1. delight, pleasure
2. darling, pet
3. (figuratively) A slave child, customarily kept by the Romans to provide entertainment.

Declension

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

• French: délice

References

• “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.