delectare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delecto, delectare, delectavi, delectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delight, please, amuse, fascinate; charm, lure, entice; be a source of delight;; (PASS) be delighted/glad, take pleasure; (w/INF) enjoy (being/doing);
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin. - Entry →delector, delectari, delectatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delight, please, amuse, fascinate; charm, lure, entice; be a source of delight;; (PASS) be delighted/glad, take pleasure; (w/INF) enjoy (being/doing);
sg. pres. imp. 2ndsg. pres. ind. 2nd
Examples
- T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hodie sunt. MIL. Scio. AGOR. Oculos volo meos delectare munditiis meretriciis. MIL. Hoc primum agamus quod consilium cepimus..." - L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...mittere in vanum? Adice nunc quod adsuescit animus delectare se potius quam sanare et philosophiam oblectamentum facere..." - L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...diceretur aspexit, nec agricolas docere voluit sed legentes delectare. Nam, ut alia omnia transeam, hoc quod mihi hodie..." - L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...introitum refer. An Syracusas uiseres deliberanti tibi quidquid delectare poterat, quidquid offendere exposui: puta nascenti me tibi uenire..." - M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quia non docere modo sed movere etiam ac delectare audientis debet orator, ad quod impetu quoque ac viribus..." - M
In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...condi et collocari volo. Nihil me mutum potest delectare, nihil tacitum, nihil denique eius modi, quod etiam minus..." - M
In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...enim, Catilina, quod te iam in hac urbe delectare possit? in qua nemo est extra istam coniurationem perditorum..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...leui seruanda cupresso? Aut prodesse uolunt aut delectare poetae aut simul et iucunda et idonea dicere uitae. Quicquid..."