delectatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēlectō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.ɫɛkˈtaː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪e.lekˈt̪at̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

dēlectātiō f (genitive dēlectātiōnis); third declension

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