delectar

Learned borrowing from Latin dēlectāre. Doublet of delitar, a popular development.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.ləkˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.lekˈtaɾ]

delectar (first-person singular present delecto, first-person singular preterite delectí, past participle delectat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to delight
2. (pronominal) to delight [with en ‘in’]

• delectança

• delectable
• delectació
• delir
• delit

• “delectar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007