delicium
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From dēlicere (“to entice, to snare; to delight”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from dē- + lacere (“to entice, to snare”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, to pull”), with no known cognates in any other Indo-European languages.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːˈlɪ.ki.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪eˈliː.t͡ʃi.um]
Noun
dēlicium n (genitive dēliciī or dēlicī); second declension
- delight, pleasure
- Synonyms: gaudium, dēlectātiō, voluptās, laetitia, frūctus, alacritās
- Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, dēsīderium
- darling, pet
- (figuratively) a prepubescent or adolescent boy who served as a sex slave, chosen for his supposed beauty
- Synonyms: catamītus, puer dēlicātus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēlicium | dēlicia |
| genitive | dēliciī dēlicī1 |
dēliciōrum |
| dative | dēliciō | dēliciīs |
| accusative | dēlicium | dēlicia |
| ablative | dēliciō | dēliciīs |
| vocative | dēlicium | dēlicia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- French: délice
References
- “delicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “delicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- delicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.