delicia

Uncertain whether from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”), as in liqueō, or Proto-Italic *lakiō or *lakʷiō (“I draw, pull”), so dē- +‎ laciō ("to draw away, drain"), of which the base verb is a hapax and possibly a nonce word. The latter root has plenty internal, but no certain external cognates; even so, De Vaan 2008 prefers this on semantic grounds, and k over kʷ due to its absence in the many cognates - but compare dēliquō ~ dēlicō (“I clear off, strain”) from leikʷ-.

Cognate to Latin sublica (“wooden stake or pile”), colliciae (“gutter”), ēlix (“furrow in a com field for draining off water”), ēliciō (“I coax, draw forth”), illecebra (“enticement”), dēliciae (“delight”). Connection with laqueus (“loop, rope snare”) uncertain.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈlɪ.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈliː.t͡ʃi.a]

dēlicia f (genitive dēliciae); first declension

1. corner beam supporting a section of an outward-sloping roof
   • c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.3.2:

     Displuviāta autem sunt, in quibus dēliciae arcam sustinentēs stīllicidia reiciunt

     Displuviate courtyards are those in which the rafters which support the frame of the opening carry the gutters down

First-declension noun.

• dēliciāris
• dēliciātus

dēlicia f (genitive dēliciae); first declension

1. (very rare) alternative form of dēliciae (“delight”)
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Carmina 3.1:

     Et Critiās mea dēlicia est

     And Critias is my darling

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “laciō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321

• “delicia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "delicia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• delicia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
    
  • to be some one's favourite: in amore et deliciis esse alicui (active in deliciis habere aliquem)
    

delicia

1. inflection of deliciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin dēliciae.

• IPA^(key): /deˈliθja/ [d̪eˈli.θja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /deˈlisja/ [d̪eˈli.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iθja (Spain)
• Rhymes: -isja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: de‧li‧cia

delicia f (plural delicias)

1. delight
2. pleasure

   Synonym: placer

• “delicia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024