delecto
Interlingua
Noun
delecto (plural delectos)
Latin
Etymology 1
Frequentative of dēlicō, or else from dē- + lactō.
Verb
dēlectō (present infinitive dēlectāre, perfect active dēlectāvī, supine dēlectātum); first conjugation
Conjugation
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 Galician-Portuguese: deleitar
- Old Spanish: deleitar
- Piedmontese: dileté
- Portuguese: deleitar
- Spanish: deleitar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
(deprecated template usage) dēlēctō
- dative masculine singular of dēlēctus
- dative neuter singular of dēlēctus
- ablative masculine singular of dēlēctus
- ablative neuter singular of dēlēctus
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[1], 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)