delectat
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. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...levata, inspiciturque tua mentula facta manu. Si te delectat numerata pecunia, vende argentum, mensas, murrina, rura, domum; vende..."Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Carmina, purpurea sed modo culta toga. Ut rosa delectat, metitur quae pollice primo, Sic nova nec mento sordida..."Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...flagrat amore catellae, si Cronius similen cercopithecon amat; delectat Marium si perniciosus ichneumon, pica salutatrix si tibi, Lause..."Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Hecaben, non potes Andromachen! Nec mullus nec te delectat, Baetice, turdus, nec lepus est umquam nec tibi gratus..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...furta tegis, et plus spectator quam te delectat adulter nec sunt grata tibi gaudia si qua latent..."Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...familiae rustici faciuntet uerae uoluptatis ignari: merum illud delectat quod non innatat cibo,quod libere penetrat ad neruos..."Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...coacta pinguescere fluunt ac vix saginam continent suam; delectat te nitor horum arte quaesitus. At mehercules ista sollicite..."Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...ista et amoenitas orationis verborumque modificatio parum delectat, amat autem priora idcirco, quod incompta et brevia..."