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
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...istis f sti solu', dum nulla alia delectatio quae propior esset, te indulgebant, tibi dabant; nunc filia postquamst..."Praefatio
Aulus Gellius
"...adminiculatior aut oratio sollertior aut sermo incorruptior aut delectatio in otio atque in ludo liberalior. XVII. Quae autem..."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..."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..."