delectatio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delectatio, delectationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
conferring/gaining delight; (source of) delight/pleasure/enjoyment/amusement;; straining/effort/tenesmus; inclination/futile straining to void bowels/bladder;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...istis f sti solu', dum nulla alia delectatio quae propior esset, te indulgebant, tibi dabant; nunc filia postquamst..." - A
Praefatio
Aulus Gellius
"...adminiculatior aut oratio sollertior aut sermo incorruptior aut delectatio in otio atque in ludo liberalior. XVII. Quae autem..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...digressio, in qua cum fuerit delectatio, tum reditus ad rem aptus et concinens esse debebit: propositioque quid..." - M
Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quibus nulla solida utilitas omnisque puerilis est delectatio, aut se, ut Plato, in musicis, geometria, numeris, astris contereret..."