delectatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin dēliciō

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-der.?

Proto-Italic *lakjō

Latin laciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin lactō

Latin dēlectō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin dēlectātiō

From dēlectō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.ɫɛkˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [de.lekˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

dēlectātiō f (genitive dēlectātiōnis); third declension

1. delight, pleasure, amusement

   Synonyms: gaudium, dēlicium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās, frūctus

   Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēlectātiō	dēlectātiōnēs
genitive	dēlectātiōnis	dēlectātiōnum
dative	dēlectātiōnī	dēlectātiōnibus
accusative	dēlectātiōnem	dēlectātiōnēs
ablative	dēlectātiōne	dēlectātiōnibus
vocative	dēlectātiō	dēlectātiōnēs

Descendants

• French: délectation
• Italian: dilettazione
• Portuguese: deleitação
• Romanian: delectație
• Spanish: delectación

References

• “delectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “delectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “delectatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a very charming book: liber plenus delectationis